“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.”
Bodied Mindfulness combines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives to explore topics central to women’s development: spirituality, women’s bodies, cultural constructions of women’s sexuality in language, sexual ethics, the sexual contract in politics and at work, and the relation between nature and culture. It is Tomm’s deeply held conviction that women need to bring a vital spirituality to feminist social criticism in order to resolve these issues and increase their power to promote social justice and ecological balance.
Tomm embraces a vast store of knowledge from diverse sources, including Buddhist, shamanist and feminist resources. In a move away from abstract theorizing, she explicitly connects theory with realities lived by women. Grounding theory in personal experience — her own and others — Tomm delivers a powerful and empowering account of women’s spirituality. The resulting ontological transformation allows women to live deeply in the body while strengthening their relation to human and non-human matter and energy.
Bodied Mindfulness will be of great interest to feminist scholars in all disciplines, but most particularly to those in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 305.4/01
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780889205833 0889202699
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- HQ1190
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- T63 1995eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 344 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326937 (OCoLC)180704511 (CaOOCEL)406026
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Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- Acknowledgments 9
- Preface 11
- Introduction 13
- Notes 26
- One: Self as Spiritual 27
- Buddhist Mindfulness 27
- Normative and Historical Consciousness 40
- Spiritual Consciousness 47
- Permeable Self 62
- Desire 69
- Notes 74
- Two: Spirituality and the Body 79
- Eros/Erotic 79
- Bodied Consciousness 89
- Reflections in the Mirror: From Artifact to Artist 105
- Female Potency and Engendering Activities 116
- Notes 125
- Three: Sexuality and Language 127
- Logic 127
- Inscribing Meaning 145
- Hermeneutics of Scepticism 154
- Hermeneutics of Affirmation: Constructing Alternatives 164
- Notes 176
- Four: Ethics of Connectedness and Resistance 179
- Ontology and Epistemology in Ethics 179
- Power and Trust 191
- Self-Interest 199
- Resisting Oppression 207
- Notes 218
- Five: Exclusionary Politics at Work 221
- Insider/Outsider Identities 221
- Bad Girl/Good Girl Sexual Power 223
- Social/Sexual Contract 235
- Work and Economics 248
- Working in the Family 265
- Notes 274
- Six: Towards 'Living With' 279
- Living with Uncertainty 279
- Environment, Ecology, and Ecofeminism 281
- New Images 294
- Interpretive Drifts 307
- Paradigm Shift Toward Integrating Spiritual and Social Realities 318
- Notes 330
- Bibliography 333
- Index 349
- A 349
- B 349
- C 349
- D 350
- E 350
- F 351
- G 351
- H 352
- I 352
- J 352
- K 353
- L 353
- M 353
- N 354
- O 354
- P 354
- R 355
- S 355
- T 356
- U 356
- V 356
- W 356
- Y 356
- Z 356
