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Social Science Women's Studies

Bodied Mindfulness

Women’s Spirits, Bodies and Places

by (author) Winnie Tomm

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1995
Category
Women's Studies, Spirituality, Inspiration & Personal Growth
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889202733
    Publish Date
    Dec 1995
    List Price
    $41.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554588022
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $38.95

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“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 Mindfulness combines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives to explore topics central to women’s development: spirituality, women’s bodies, cultural constructions of women’s sexuality in language, sexual ethics, the sexual contract in politics and at work, and the relation between nature and culture. It is Tomm’s 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 women’s 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 Mindfulness will be of great interest to feminist scholars in all disciplines, but most particularly to those in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies.

About the author

Winnie Tomm was Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Alberta and the author of The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies and The Pervasive Prejudice: Gender Bias in University Research.

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