Thanks to everyone for the great reading list you gave to Dan Ballance
-- it overlaps my area of prime interest, also.
I study Buddhism in order to find/create a spiritual practice that
works for me as a feminist. I'm not an academic, but I read everything
for useful ideas.
On my SkyDancer site I keep a bibliography, linked to my annotations,
at <http://www.loudzen.com/skydancer/biblio/index.html>; and muse on
what I learn in the Essays section:
<http://www.loudzen.com/skydancer/essays/index.html>.
Two of my favorite books no one has mentioned yet:
-- _Being Bodies; Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment_ ed, by
Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon (Boston, Shambhala Publications, 1997):
Specifically feminist, Buddhists from a variety of traditions, not
historical but grappling with current issues.
-- _World as Lover, World as Self_ by Joanna Macy (Berkeley: Parallax
Press, 1991): feminist in her underlying values. At her Web site
<http://www.joannamacy.net/index.html>, Macy mentions her first
teachers were Tibetan, and her current practice is vipassana. This book
is about grasping basic Buddhist concepts -- especially paticca
samuppada -- from a Western mindset.
And I believe no one has yet mentioned Rita Gross' _Soaring and
Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious
Issues_ (New York: Continuum, 2000) -- which has much in it about her
relationship to her Vajrayana practice.
Now to go read the ones you mentioned I haven't seen....
In gratitude,
-- Catherine
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Catherine Holmes Clark
Feminist Buddhism --
http://www.loudzen.com/skydancer/
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