Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations (SUNY series, Feminist Philosophy) - Hardcover

"The topics of women and feminist interpretation have become very important in many academic fields in the humanities and social sciences. Buddhist studies is no exception. Indeed, the feminine, women, sexuality, and gender have virtually become a subfield in Buddhist studies. So, the topic of this book is important in its own right but also for what it contributes to other fields. What strikes me as especially valuable about this volume is its relatively synoptic/inclusive nature, thereby giving it a very timely role in the current literature on Buddhism, women, and sexuality." -- Donald K. Swearer, author of The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia

"What I like most about this book is the scope--feminism/Buddhism--in cross- cultural contexts. There is no other book like it. Buddhist Women Across Cultures articulates vital strands of the process which the author so aptly terms the 'feminization of Buddhism.'

"This is the only anthology that really works with these issues from cross-cultural and feminist perspectives. This insight makes the anthology stand out in the rapidly growing area of Buddhism/feminism--perhaps the key book to reconfigure the field at present and for some time to come." -- Jeffner Allen, State University of New York at Binghamton