Bodied Mindfulness Womens Spirits, Bodies and Places [Paperback]

I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.

Bodied Mindfulnesscombines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives to explore topics central to womens development: spirituality, womens bodies, cultural constructions of womens sexuality in language, sexual ethics, the sexual contract in politics and at work, and the relation between nature and culture. It is Tomms deeply held conviction that women need to bring a vital spirituality to feminist social criticism in order to resolve these issues and increase their power to promote social justice and ecological balance.

Tomm embraces a vast store of knowledge from diverse sources, including Buddhist, shamanist and feminist resources. In a move away from abstract theorizing, she explicitly connects theory with realities lived by women. Grounding theory in personal experience  her own and others  Tomm delivers a powerful and empowering account of womens spirituality. The resulting ontological transformation allows women to live deeply in the body while strengthening their relation to human and non-human matter and energy.

Bodied Mindfulnesswill be of great interest to feminist scholars in all disciplines, but most particularly to those in Womens Studies and Religious Studies.

Table of Contents forBodied Mindfulness: Womens Spirits, Bodies and Placesby Winnie Tomm

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Notes

One: Self as Spiritual

Buddhist Mindfulness

Normative and Historical Consciousness

Spiritual Consciousness

Permeable Self

Desire

Notes

Two: Spirituality and the Body

Eros/Erotic

Bodied Consciousness

Reflections in the Mirror: From Artifact to Artist

Female Potency and Engendering Activities