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Books (5)

Women in Early Buddhist Literature (1961) – I. B. Horner
Gender (2012) – Jamie Heckert
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022) – Kate Beaton
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and its Others in Buddhist Burma (2017) – Ward Keeler
Why Fish Don’t Exist (2020) – Lulu Miller

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Documents (24)

Mahāpajāpatī’s Going Forth in the Madhyama-āgama (2011) – Bhikkhu Anālayo
Tilling the Fields of Merit: The Institutionalization of Feminine Enlightenment in Tibet’s First Khenmo Program (2020) – Jue Liang and Andrew S. Taylor
Right View, Red Rust, and White Bones: A Reexamination of Buddhist Teachings on Female Inferiority (2012) – Allison Goodwin
Social Inequalities and the Promotion of Women in Buddhism in Thailand (2018) – Manuel Litalien
Nuns, Laywomen, Donors, Goddesses: Female Roles in Early Indian Buddhism (2001) – Peter Skilling
Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia (2021) – Amy Langenberg
Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority (2010) – Karma Lekshe Tsomo
‘Stop! A Buddhist is here!’: Bodhisattva Masculinity on Death Row (2005) – H. Cunnell
“I am Not a Feminist, but…”: Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering (2018) – Carroll Seron, Susan Silbey, Erin Cech, and Brian Rubineau
To Be, or Not to Be (2018) – Masha Gessen
Sexual Harassment of Women Leaders (2020) – Olle Folke, Johanna Rickne, Seiki Tanaka, and Yasuka Tateishi
What Did the Buddha Think of Women? (2012) – Bhikkhu Cintita
Yasodharā in Jātakas (2018) – Sarah Shaw
Men Explain Things to Me (2008) – Rebecca Solnit
The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-Shan: Gender and Status in the Ch’an Buddhist Tradition (1982) – Miriam L. Levering
The Buddha Would Have Believed You (2021) – Bhante Sujato
Red Rust, Robbers and Rice Fields: Women’s Part in the Precipitation of the Decline of the Dhamma (2002) – Liz Williams
Just Think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014) – Timothy D. Wilson and others
Politics of the Buddha’s Genitals (2017) – Bhante Sujato
What Work Is (1991) – Philip Levine
Out of the Ordinary (2021) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika
Poor Black Women (1968) – Patricia Robinson
Twenty-three percent of women report sexual assault in college (2015) – Kelly Wallace
Gender Discrimination and the Pali Canon: An Open Letter to Ayya Tathaaloka (2009) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Audio/Video (14)

Featured:

  • The Men (and Boys) Are Not Alright (2023) – Richard Reeves
    ⭐ Recommended

    It’s an anthropological fact that masculinity is a bit fragile in that it has to be constructed. Every society has worked on constructing roles and rites-of-passage for men that attach them to their communities. [But] this [nurturing, pro-social] behavior—being learned—is rather fragile, and can disappear quite quickly under circumstances that no longer teach it effectively.

    1h 58m
    Online
  • The Invisible Lady (2020) – Jill Lepore

    A meditation on the historical relationship between privacy, knowledge, and femininity.

    37 min
    Online

See also:

Why Do Men Rule the World? (2022) – Alice Evans
Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns (Interview) (2020) – Alice Collett
Birth in Buddhism (Interview) (2018) – Amy Langenberg
A Voice for Nepali Nuns (2018) – Ani Choying Drolma
Feminism Post-Weinstein (2020) – Rebecca Solnit
Fulfilling Buddha’s Vision (2021) – Warangkana Chomchuen
I Hear Her Words (2021) – Alice Collett
The Widows of Everest (2021) – 101 East
What to Expect (2021) – Katie Manning and Pádraig Ó Tuama
Bored (2019) – Margaret Atwood and Tracy K. Smith
Since I Left You (2000) – The Avalanches
For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose (2020) – Kristene Kaye Brown and Tracy K. Smith

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