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Buddhism after patriarchy: a feminist history, analysis, and reconstruction of Buddhism
Rita M. Gross-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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I. Orientations
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1: Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism (page 3)
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2: Orientations to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours (page 7)
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II. Toward an Accurate and Usable Past: A Feminist Sketch of Buddhist History
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3: Why Bother? What Is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For? (page 17)
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4: Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism (page 29)
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5: Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism (page 55)
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6: The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism (page 79)
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7: Conclusions: Heroines and Tokens (page 115)
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III. "The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female": A Feminist Analysis of Key Concepts in Buddhism
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8: Resources for a Buddhist Feminism (page 125)
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9: Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview (page 137)
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10: Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts (page 153)
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11: Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings (page 157)
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12: Gender and Emptiness: Feminist Comments on Mahayana Teachings (page 173)
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13: Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third Turning Teachings and the Vajrayana (page 185)
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IV: The Dharma is Both Female and Male: Toward an Androgynous Reconstruction of Buddhism
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14: Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward (page 209)
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15: Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic and Yogic Practitioners (page 225)
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16: Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dharma (page 257)
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Methadological Appendices (page 291)
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Notes (page 319)
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Bibliography (page 339)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAS | 52.3 (Aug. 1993): 691-692 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058864 |
BUD | 14 (1994): 245-248 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1389849 |
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Published: c1993
Publisher: State University of New York Press
- 9780791414040 (paper)
- 9780791414033 (hardcover)