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Book SynopsisCombines 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.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Bodied Mindfulness: Women's Spirits, Bodies and Places by Winnie Tomm
AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNotesOne: 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
