Bodied mindfulness : women's spirits, bodies and places
Annotation "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."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
eBook, English, ©1995
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., ©1995
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1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9780889202696, 9780889202733, 9780889205833, 0889202699, 0889202737, 0889205833
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Table of Contents for Bodied Mindfulness: Women's Spirits, Bodies and Places by Winnie TommAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNotesOne: Self as SpiritualBuddhist MindfulnessNormative and Historical ConsciousnessSpiritual ConsciousnessPermeable SelfDesireNotesTwo: Spirituality and the BodyEros/EroticBodied ConsciousnessReflections in the Mirror: From Artifact to ArtistFemale Potency and Engendering ActivitiesNotesThree: Sexuality and LanguageLogicInscribed MeaningHermeneutics of ScepticismHermeneutics of Affirmation: Constructing AlternativesNotesFour: Ethics of Connectedness and ResistanceOntology and Epistemology in ethicsPower and TrustSelf-InterestResisting OppressionNotesFive: Exclusionary Politcs at WorkInsider/Outsider IdentitiesBad Girl/Good Girl Sexual PowerWork and EconomicsWorking in the FamilyNotesSix: Towards ""Living With""Living with UncertaintyEnvironment, Ecology, and EcofeminismNew ImagesInterpretive DriftsParadigm Shifts Toward Integrating Spiritual and Social RealitiesNotesBibliographyIndex
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
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