A Garland of Feminist Reflections

Forty Years of Religious Exploration

Rita M Gross author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:27th Feb '09

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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 in "A Garland of Feminist Reflections" represent 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' 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.

"In this book, the reader absorbs the intelligence of Rita Gross' mind, the frustrations and sorrows of her role as a reformer, her perseverance and her yearning." Shambhala Sun "An indispensable collection of her best collected writing from the past forty years... Gross' writing is strikingly beautiful." Feminist Review "This compilation only whets the reader's appetite for another such volume." Waterwheel

ISBN: 9780520255869

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 499g

352 pages