Hi, All,

Here are more sources.


Dear Nancy:

Here are some sources that might help.  Some are older from when I taught a course on women, gender, and religion in the nineties.   I am actually a biblical scholar so take them with a grain of salt.  Cheers,  Janice

Clarissa Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985).

Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin, Jay B. McDaniel, eds.  After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions (MaryKnoll: Orbis Books, 1991) ISBN 0883447487
UI Call No. BL 85.A44 1991 on reserve for Nick Gier’s courses?

Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross, eds. Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives (Wadsworth, 1989) ISBN 0534098525

Pat Holden, Women’s Religious Experience (London: Croom Helm, 1983).

Ursula King, ed. Women in the World’s Religions Past and Present (New York: Paragon House, 1987) UI Call No. BL458.W58 1987

Ursula King, ed. Religion and Gender (Blackwell Pub., 1994) ISBN 0631193774 [re-released by Routledge 1995??]

Arvind Sharma, ed. and Katherine K. Young, intro, Religion and Women (State University of New York Press, 1994 ISBN 0-7914-1690-9 (Covers Native American, African, Shinto, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, and Bahai).

Arvind Sharma, ed. and Katherine K. Young, intro. Today’s Women in World Religions (SUNY Press, 1994) ISBN 0-7914-1687-9 (covers Aboriginal, Hinduism, Buddhism, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)

 Karin Kapadia,  Siva and her sisters:  gender, caste, and class in rural South India. (Westview  1995).  ISBN 0-8133-8158-4.

David Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986) ISBN 0-520- 06339-2    Call No. BL 1216.2.K56 1986

David Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) ISBN 0-520-20499-9

P. Pratap Kumar, The Goddess Laksmi (Scholars Press, 1997) Paper ISBN 0-7885-0199-2

Julia Leslie, ed. Roles and rituals for Hindu women,   ( Fairleigh Dickinson  1991)  ISBN 0-8386-3475-3.

Tracy Pintchman, The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition (SUNY Press, 1994) ISBN 0791421120

Playing for Real: Hindu Role Models, Religion, and Gender
by Jacqueline Suthren Hirst (Editor), Lynn Thomas (Editor)

Lindsey Harlan, The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship.  Oxford University Press, 2003# ISBN-10: 0195154266 # ISBN-13: 978-0195154269

Stephanie W. Jamison Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India  Oxford University Press 1996 # ISBN-10: 0195096630 # ISBN-13: 978-0195096637

AND:

A colleague at Metro State University in Denver is working on an anthology of feminist and Asian philosophy.  You might contact her for more references:
Ashby Butnor, at
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Ashby is just finishing her Ph.D at the U. of Hawaii and her work appears to me (I'm outside my area here, of course :-) ) to be cutting edge.