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Presence with a Difference: Buddhists and Feminists on Subjectivity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
Essentialist and postmodern feminisms are often regarded as incompatible. I propose that Buddhist theories of subjectivity change the nature of the tension between them as presently construed because Buddhist traditions describe a mind not wholly governed by language, and a subjective mental dimension that is entirely integrated with the body and its sensations. A corollary is the compatibility Buddhists perceive between conditioned subjective states (akin to postmodern feminisms) and the unconditioned (akin to essentialist feminisms).
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- Embodying Subjectivities
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- Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion , Fall 1994 , pp. 112 - 130
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- Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.
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