Acknowledgments
I. Orientations
1: Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism
2: Orientations to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours
II. Toward an Accurate and Usable Past: A Feminist Sketch of Buddhist History
3: Why Bother? What Is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For?
4: Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism
5: Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism
6: The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism
7: Conclusions: Heroines and Tokens
III. "The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female": A Feminist Analysis of Key Concepts in Buddhism
8: Resources for a Buddhist Feminism
9: Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview
10: Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts
11. Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings
12. Gender and Eptiness: Feminist Comments on Mahayana Teachings
13. Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third Turning Teachings and the Vajrayana
IV. The Dharma is Both Female and Male: Toward an Androgynous Reconstruction of Buddhism
14: Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward
15. Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic and Yogic Practitioners
16. Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dharma
1: "I Go for Refuge to the Sangha": Relationship and Enlightenment"
2: Sacred Outlook and Everyday Life
3: Spiritual Discipline: Vision and Transcendence in Remaking the World
Methodological Appendices
A. Here I Stand: Feminism as Academic Method and as Social Vision
B. Religious Experience and the Study of Religion: The History of Religions
Notes
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