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In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world. These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.
Contents
Foreword, by Eliot Deutsch Acknowledgments Feminist Comparative Philosophy: Performing Philosophy Differently, by Ashby Butnor and Jennifer McWeeny Part 1 Gender and Potentiality 1. Kamma, No-Self, and Social Construction: The Middle Way Between Determinism and Free Will, by Hsiao-Lan Hu 2. On the Transformative Potential of the "Dark Female Animal" in Daodejing, by Kyoo Lee 3. Confucian Family-State and Women: A Proposal for Confucian Feminism, by Ranjoo Seodu Herr Part 2 Raising Consciousness 4. Mindfulness, Anatman, and the Possibility of a Feminist Self-consciousness, by Keya Maitra 5. Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Maria Lugones and Zen Master Hakuin, by Jennifer McWeeny Part 3 Places of Knowing 6. What Would Zhuangzi Say to Harding? A Daoist Critique of Feminist Standpoint Epistemology, by Xinyan Jiang 7. "Epistemic Multiculturalism" and Objectivity: Rethinking Vandana Shiva's Ecospirituality, by Vrinda Dalmiya Part 4 Cultivating Ethical Selves 8. Confucian Care: A Hybrid Feminist Ethics, by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee 9. The Embodied Ethical Self: A Japanese and Feminist Account of Nondual Subjectivity, by Erin McCarthy 10. Dogen, Feminism, and the Embodied Practice of Care, by Ashby Butnor Part 5 Transforming Discourse 11. De-liberating Traditions: The Female Bodies of Sati and Slavery, by Namita Goswami Philosophy Uprising: The Feminist Afterword, by Chela Sandoval Feminist Comparative Philosophy and Associated Methodologies: A Bibliography Contributors Index
