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Dedication
CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgment
Introduction
I. bringing the past into the present
II. multiculturalism and liberal feminism: is the rift between them necessary?
III. development of gender discourse in chinese culture and thought
IV. purpose of this volume and its four main parts
V. what’s next? a way forward
Part I Confucian Approaches: Ancient and Medieval
Chapter One Women and Moral Dilemmas in Early Chinese Narrative
Chapter Two Discourses on Women from the Classical Period to the Song: An Integrated Approach
I. INTRODUCTION
II. APPROACHING “WOMAN” THROUGH TEXTS ACROSS TIME
III. SOME FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS
IV. BUDDHISM AND ITS EFFECT ON DAOISM FROM HAN TO THE SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD
V. PERSONAL AGENDA AND PHILOSOPHY DURING TANG DYNASTY (618–907)
VI. SONG DYNASTY SEEN THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL AGENDA: SOCIOPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SURVIVAL
VII. CONCLUSION: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE SYNCRETISM-SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSOPHIES
Chapter Three Neo-Confucians and Zhu Xi on Family and Women: Challenges and Potentials
I. Unearthing new evidence
II. ZHU XI ON FAMILY AND WOMEN
III. THE LI-QI, YIN-YANG, DYADIC RELATION: TWO INCONSISTENT IMPLICATIONS
IV. CONCLUSION
Chapter Four The Dream of Sagehood: A Re-Examination of Queen Sohae’s Naehoon
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Part II Confucian Approaches: Modern and Contemporary
Chapter Five Close Personal Relationships and the Situated Self: The Confucian Analects and Feminist Philosophy
I. FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY’S SITUATED SELF
Ii. The five relationships in early confucian philosophy
III. FILIAL PIETY IN THE ANALECTS
IV. FRIENDSHIP IN THE ANALECTS
V. RELATIONAL COMPLEXITIES
Chapter Six Care and Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, and Gilligan Comparatively
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Chapter Seven Moral Reasoning: The Female Way and the Xunzian Way
I. XUNZI’S VIEW OF WOMEN’S MORAL REASONING
II. THE ROLES THAT AFFECT AND CONTEXT PLAY IN XUNZI’S CONCEPTION OF MORAL REASONING
III. DO CONFUCIANS REALLY CARE?
IV. CONCLUSION
Chapter Eight Multiculturalism and Feminism Revisited: A Hybridized Confucian Care Ethic
Chapter Nine Would Confucianism Allow Two Men to Share a Peach? Compatibility between Ancient Confucianism and Homosexuality
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE TERM “HOMOSEXUALITY”
III. HOMOSEXUALITY IN ANCIENT CHINA
IV. CONFUCIAN REASONS SUPPORTING THE PERMISSIBILITY OF HOMOSEXUALITY
V. EXTRINSIC PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
VI. CONCLUSION
Part III Daoist Approaches
Chapter Ten Yinyang Gender Dynamics: Lived Bodies, Rhythmical Changes, and Cultural Performances1
I. EMBODYING YIN AND EMBRACING YANG: BEYOND THE SEX AND GENDER BINARY
II. YINYANG FLUIDITY AND INTEGRATION: CROSSING THE MALE AND FEMALE BOUNDARY
III. YINYANG GENDER DYNAMICS: A SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE CREATIVITY OF WOMAN
IV. CONCLUSION
Chapter Eleven On the Dao of Ci . (Feminine/Female) in the Daodejing«...»
I. INTRODUCTION
II. How is the feminine identified in the classical chinese tradition?
III. THREE MAJOR READINGS OF THE FEMININE IN THE DAODEJING
IV. THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE WATER METAPHOR IN THE DAODEJING
V. THE PRINCIPLE OF ABIDING BY THE FEMININE/FEMALE
Vi. DIFFERING COMPORTMENTS TOWARD CI AND XIONG
VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chapter Twelve To Beget and to Forget: On the Transformative Power of the Two Feminine Images of Dao in the Laozi*
I. THE MOTHER AND THE MYSTERIOUS FEMALE
II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEMALE FOR GROWTH AND DEVELoPMENT
III. MYSTICISM AND BEYOND: FORGETTING AND NOURISHING
Chapter Thirteen The Yijing, Gender, and the Ethics of Nature
I. INITIAL QUESTIONS: GENDER, NATURE, AND “CHINESE THOUGHT”1
II. A PRE- AND POST-PATRIARCHAL BOOK OF CHANGES?
III. THE YIJING AS DIVINATION, PROPHECY, AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE
IV. LEARNING FROM NATURE THROUGH THE DIALECTICAL IMAGE
V. THE YIJING, GENDER, AND AN AFFECTIVE-REFLECTIVE ETHICS OF NATURE
VI. CONCLUSION
Chapter Fourteen Daoism and the LGBT Community
Part IV Buddhist Approaches
Chapter Fifteen Buddhist Nondualism: Deconstructing Gender and Other Delusions of the Discriminating Mind through Awareness
Chapter sixteen Non-Self, Agency, and Women: Buddhism’s Modern Transformation
I. INTRODUCTION
II. BUDDHIST TEACHING OF NON-SELF AND EMPTINESS
III. TEXTS AND TENSIONS: BUDDHIST TEXTS ON WOMEN
IV. BUDDHISM’S MODERN TRANSFORMATION
V. CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Chapter seventeen “The Bodhisattva’s Path” as Gender-Neutral Practices: A Case Study of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Community in Taiwa
I. TZU CHI FOUNDATION: THE BACKGROUND
II. PROMINENCE OF MATERNAL VALUES
III. GENDER CROSSING
IV. discussion
V. CONCLUSION
Chapter Eighteen Bhik.uni Chao-Hwei’s Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethics
I. FROM ANIMAL PROTECTION TO GENDER EQUALITY WITHIN THE MONASTIC SANGHA
II. UNDERSTANDING THE “CO-ARISING” OF LGBT AS A DEPRIVED AND OPPRESSED GROUP
III. “MIDDLE WAY” APPROACH: BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON LOVE AND SEX
IV. PROTECTION OF BEINGS: BUDDHIST REASONS FOR SUPPORTING LGBT RIGHTS
V. SIGNIFICANCE OF CHAO-HWEI’S STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH SAME-SEX COUPLES
VI. BHIKs. UNi- CHAO-HWEI’S BUDDHIST-FEMINIST SOCIAL ETHICS
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