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• Books (6)
• Readings (36)
• Audio/Video (15)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (6)

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

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (2023) – Claire Dederer

Why Fish Don’t Exist (2020) – Lulu Miller

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Readings (36)

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• Effects of Gendered Behavior on Testosterone in Women and Men (2015) – Sari M. van Anders, Jeffrey Steiger, and Katherine L. Goldey

  Men’s higher testosterone is typically seen as an innate “sex” difference. However, our experiment demonstrates that gender-related social factors also matter, even for biological measures. Gender socialization may affect testosterone by encouraging men but not women toward behaviors that increase testosterone. This shows that research on human sex biology needs to account for gender socialization and that nurture, as well as nature, is salient to hormone physiology. Our paper provides a demonstration of a novel gender→testosterone pathway, opening up new avenues for studying gender biology.

  6 pages

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• Testosterone Causes Both Prosocial and Antisocial Status-Enhancing Behaviors in Human Males (2016) – Jean-Claude Dreher, Simon Dunne, Agnieszka Pazderska, Thomas Frodl, John J. Nolan and others

  Administration of testosterone caused increased punishment of the other player but also increased reward of larger offers.

  6 pages

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See also:

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 Paris Langenberg

Forbidden from the Heart: Flexible Food Taboos, Ambiguous Culinary Transgressions, and Cultural Intimacy in Hoi An, Vietnam (2019) – Nir Avieli

Thai Children and Religion (1975) – B. J. Terwiel

Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority (2010) – Karma Lekshe Tsomo

‘Stop! A Buddhist is here!’: Bodhisattva Masculinity on Death Row (2005) – H. Cunnell

Karma and Female Birth (2014) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

“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

Soreyya/ā’s Double Sex Change: On Gender Relevance and Buddhist Values (2019) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

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

Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism (2020) – Ray Buckner

The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-Shan: Gender and Status in the Ch’an Buddhist Tradition (1982) – Miriam L. Levering

Being Different With Dignity: Buddhist Inclusiveness of Homosexuality (2018) – Fung Kei Cheng

Educational Migration and Intergenerational Relations: A Study of Educated Returnee Women in Nepal (2019) – Laxmi Dhungel

How To Kill Your Tech Industry (2018) – Mar Hicks

The Buddha Would Have Believed You (2021) – Bhante Sujato

Bad Karma or Discrimination?: Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India (2017) – Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Goel, and Shantanu Khanna

Persistence of Gender Biases in Europe (2023) – Taylor J. Damann, Jeremy Siow, and Margit Tavits

Just Think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014) – Timothy D. Wilson and others

Politics of the Buddha’s Genitals (2017) – Bhante Sujato

Language Influences Mass Opinion Toward Gender and LGBT Equality (2019) – Margit Tavits and Efrén O. Pérez

What Work Is (1991) – Philip Levine

Twenty-three percent of women report sexual assault in college (2015) – Kelly Wallace

Out of the Ordinary (2021) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

Gender Discrimination and the Pali Canon: An Open Letter to Ayya Tathaaloka (2009) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka (2012) – Raveen Hanwella, Varuni de Silva, Alam Yoosuf, Sanjeewani Karunaratne, and Pushpa de Silva

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Audio/Video (15)

Featured:

• The Men (and Boys) Are Not Alright (2023) – Richard Reeves
  ⭐ Recommended
  
  1h 58 m

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• We Need Better Narratives About Gender (2023) – Masha Gessen and Lydia Polgreen
  
  66 min

  YouTube
• 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

A Voice for Nepali Nuns (2018) – Ani Choying Drolma

Fulfilling Buddha’s Vision (2021) – Warangkana Chomchuen

Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns (Interview) (2020) – Alice Collett

Birth in Buddhism (Interview) (2018) – Amy Paris Langenberg

Feminism Post-Weinstein (2020) – Rebecca Solnit

The Widows of Everest (2021) – 101 East

I Hear Her Words (2021) – Alice Collett

Bored (2019) – Margaret Atwood and Tracy K. Smith

What to Expect (2021) – Katie Manning and Pádraig Ó Tuama

For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose (2020) – Kristene Kaye Brown and Tracy K. Smith

Since I Left You (2000) – The Avalanches

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