Description: Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities, Paperback by Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (EDT), ISBN 1438472560, ISBN-13 9781438472560, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Silver Medalist, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion (Eastern/Western) Category
This groundbreaking book explores Buddhist thought and culture, from multiple Buddhist perspectives, as sources for feminist reflection and social action. Too often, when writers apply terms such as "woman," "femininity," and "feminism" to Buddhist texts and contexts, they begin with models of feminist thinking that foreground questions and concerns arising from Western experience. This oversight has led to many facile assumptions, denials, and oversimplifications that ignore womens diverse social and historical contexts. But now, with the tools of feminist analysis that have developed in recent decades, constructs of the feminine in Buddhist texts, imagery, and philosophy can be examined—with the acknowledgment that there are limitations to applying these theoretical paradigms to other cultures. Contributors to this volume offer a feminist analysis, which integrates gender theory and Buddhist perspectives, to Buddhist texts and womens narratives from Asia. How do Buddhist concepts of self and no-self intersect with concepts of gender identity, especially for women? How are the female body, sexuality, and femininity constructed (and contested) in diverse Buddhist contexts? How might power and gender identity be perceived differently through a Buddhist lens? By exploring feminist approaches and representations of "the feminine," including persistent questions about womens identities as householders and renunciants, this book helps us to understand how Buddhist influences on attitudes toward women, and how feminist thinking from other parts of the world, can inform and enlarge contemporary discussions of feminism.
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Book Title: Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Gender Studies, Buddhist, Sexuality & Gender Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
