SOURCE: "As the Master Saw Her," in Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, edited by Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster, Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 112-129.
In the following essay, Roy explores questions of gender identity as they relate not only to Vivekananda, but to his teacher Ramakrishna and to his British female disciple Margaret Noble, or Sister Nivedita.
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