A Garland of Feminist Reflections

Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is recognized as preeminent in Buddhist feminist theology. The essays inA Garland of Feminist Reflectionsrepresent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism. The introductory article, written specifically for this volume, summarizes the conclusions Gross has reached about gender and feminism after forty years of searching and exploring, and the autobiography, also written for this volume, narrates how those conclusions were reached. These articles reveal the range of scholarship and reflection found in Rita M. Gross's work and demonstrate how feminist scholars in the 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.

Introductory Materials
Introducing A Garland of Feminist Reflections
How Did This Ever Happen to Me?
A Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up
Five essays on method
Androcentrism and Androgyny in the Methodology of History of Religions
Where Have We Been?
Where Do We Need to Go?
Key Questions for Women Studies in Religion and Feminist Theology
The Place of the Personal and the Subjective in Religious Studies
Methodology: Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective
What Went Wrong? Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles
Theory applied: three tests
Menstruation and Childbirth as Ritual and Religious Experience among Native Australians
Toward a New Model of the Hindu Pantheon: A Report on Twenty-Some Years of Feminist Reflection
The Prepatriarchal Hypothesis: An Assessment
Feminist Theology
Steps toward Feminine Imagery in Jewish Theology
Is the (Hindu) Goddess a Feminist?
Life-Giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual
Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions
Buddhist Feminism: Feminist Buddhism
The Clarity in the Anger
Why (Engaged) Buddhists Should Care about Gender Issues
The Dharma of Gender
Yeshe Tsogyel: Enlightened Consort, Great Teacher, Female Role Model
Buddhist Women and Teaching Authority
Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? A Feminist Assessment of Buddhism at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
Being a North American Buddhist Woman: Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer
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