William Bodiford

Part 1: Fundamentals

Horner, I. B. **Women Under Primitive Buddhism**. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1930. Reprinted 1975.
Murcott, Susan. **The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha**. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991. [Cf. Oldenberg]
Oldenberg, Hermann and Richard Pischel (trans.). **The Therigatha**. London: Pali Text Society, 1966.[Cf. Murcott]
Paul, Diana. **Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Buddhism**. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1985.
Rhys Davids, C.A.F. and K.R. Norman (trans.). **Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns: Therigatha**. London: Pali Text Society, 1989.

Part 2: Elaborations: General Buddhist and/or Feminist Issues

Barnes, Nancy. "Women in Buddhism." In **Women in World Religions** ed. Arvina Sharma. New York: SUNY Press, 1987.
Brock, et al. "The Questions that Won't Go Away: A Dialogue About Women in Buddhism and Christianity,"
**Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion** 6/2 (1990) Cabezon, Jose, ed. **Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender** (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
Carmody, Denise L. **Women and World Religions**. (?)
Falk, Nancy A. and Rita M. Gross, ed. **Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures**. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980. (contains several essays on Buddhism)
Gross, **Buddhism after Patriarchy** (SUNY 1992)
Hopkinson, Deborah, et al. **Not Mixing Up Buddhism:
Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice**. New York: White Pine Press, 1986.
Kajiyama Yuichi. "Women in Buddhism." **The Eastern Buddhist** 15/2 (1982): 53-70.
King, Ursula, ed. **Women in the World's Religions,
Past and Present**. New York: Paragon House, 1987. (contains several essays on Buddhism)
Ku, Cheng-mei. "[The Mahisasaka View of Women."] In **Buddhist
Thought and Ritual** ed. David J. Kalupahana. Pp. 103- 124. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Minamoto, Junko. "[Buddhism and the Historical Construction of
Sexuality in Japan."] **U.S.-Japan Women's Journal: English Supplement** 6 (1993)
"[Buddhist Attitudes: A Woman's Perspective,"] in
**Women, Religion, and Sexuality: Studies on the Impact
of Religious Teachings on Women**, edited by Jeanne
Beacher. Pp. 154- 71. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1990.
Obeyesekere, Garanath. **Medusa's Hair**. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981.
Powers, John and Deane Curtin. "Mothering in Buddhist
and Feminist Ethics," **Philosophy East and West**, 44/1 (1994): 1-18.
Sharma, Arvind, ed., **Religion and Women**. Introduction by
Katherine Young. New York: SUNY Press, 1993. ed., **Today's Women in World Religions**. Introduction by Katherine Young. New York: SUNY Press, 1993. ed., **Women in World Religions**. Introduction by Katherine Young. New York: SUNY Press, 1987.
Shaw, Miranda. **Passionate Enlightenment: Women in
Tantric Buddhism**. Princeton, 1994.
Sponberg, Alan. "Attitudes Toward women and the feminine in Early Buddhism," in **Buddhism,
Sexuality, and Gender**, edited by Jose Cabezon
**Women and Buddhism**. Special issue of **Spring Wind:
Buddhist Cultural Form** 6/1-3 (1986). (Journal published by Zen Buddhist Temple, 86 Vaughan Rd., Toronto, Ontario M6C 2M1 CANADA)

India & South-East Asian Society
Barholomeusz, Tessa. "[Sri Lankan Women and the Buddhist Revival."] **IRIS** (Fall 1991): 43- 48.
**Women under the Bo Tree** (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994)
Deshpande, Gauri. **Pan on Fire: eight Dalit women tell their
story**, trans. Sumitra Bhave (New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 1988).
Gombrich, Richard. "[Feminine Elements in Sinhalese Buddhism,"]
**Wiener Zeitschrift fuur die Kunde Suudasiens** 16 (1972): 67- 93.
Gombrich, Richard and Gananath Obeyesekere. "[The Contemporary
Resurgence of Nuns,"] in **Buddhism Transformed** (Princeton, 1988).
Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn. **Thai Women in Buddhism**. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 199?
Keyes, Charles F. "[Ambiguous Gender: Male initiation in a
northern Thai Buddhist society,"] in **Gender and Religion:
On the Complexity of Symbols**, edited by Caroline Walker
Bynum, Stevan Harrell and Paula Richman (NY: Beacon Press, 1986).
"[Mother or Mistress but Never a Monk: Buddhist Notions
of Female Gender in Rural Thailand."] **American Ethnologist** 11/2 (1984): 223- 241.
Khocng, Chacn. **Learning True Love: How I learned and practiced
social change in Vietnam**. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 199?
Richman, Paula. **Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric
in a Tamil Buddhist Text**. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ., 1988.
Zelliot, Eleanor. "[Buddhist women of the contemporary
Maharashtrian Conversion Movement,"] in **Buddhism, Sexuality,
and Gender**, edited by Jose Cabezon.

Chinese and/or General East Asian Society
Ahern, Emily. "The Power and pollution of Chinese
Women," in **Women in Chinese Society**, edited by
Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke (Stanford, 1975).
Dudbridge, Glen. "[Women Pilgrims to T'ai Shan: Some Pages
from a Seventeenth-Century Novel,"] in **Pilgrims and Sacred
Sites in China**, ed. Susan Naquin and Chuun-fang Yuu (Calif., 1992)
Eitel, E. J. "A Buddhist Purgatory for Women."
**Notes and Queries on China and Japan** 5 (June 1868): 66-85.
Goodrich, Grace. "Nuns of North China." **Asia** 37 (1937): 90-93.
Iwai, Hirosato. "The Buddhist Priest and the Ceremony
of Attaining Womanhood during the Yuan Dynasty."
**Memoirs of the Toyo Bunko** 7 (1935): 105-161.
Johnson, David, ed., **Operatic Ritual, Ritual Opera:
'Mu-lien Rescues His Mother' in Chinese Popular Culture** (Berkeley: UC Press, 1989).
Levering, Miriam L. "The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of
Mo-shan: Gender and Status in the Ch'an Buddhist Tradition." **Journal of the International
Association of Buddhist Studies** 5/1 (1982): 19-35.
Li, Jung-hsi, trans. **Biographies of Buddhist Nuns:
Pao-chang's Pi-chiu-ni-chuan**. Osaka, Japan: Tohokan, 1981. [Cf. Tsai]
Sangren, P. Steven. "Female Gender in Chinese
Religious Symbols: Kuan-Yin, Ma-tsu, and the
Eternal Mother." **Signs** 9/1 (1983): 4-25.
Schuster, Nancy. "Striking a Balance: Women and
Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism." In
**Women, Religion, and Social Change** ed. Yvonne
Y. Haddad and Ellison B. Findly. New York: SUNY Press, 1985.
Seaman, Gary. "The Sexual Politics of Karmic
Retribution," in **The Anthropology of Taiwanese
Society**, edited by Emily Martin Ahern and Hill Gates, pp. 381-96 (Stanford, 1981).
Tsai, Kathryn Ann. "The Chinese Buddhist Monastic
Order for Women." In **Women in China** ed. Guisso
and Johannessen. Youngstown, New York: Philo
Press, 198, trans. **Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of
Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth
Centuries**. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii, 1994. [Cf. Li]
Tsu, Y. Y. "Diary of a Chinese Buddhist Nun: T'ze
Kuang." **The Journal of Religion** 7/5-6 (1927): 612-618.

Tibetan and Mongolian Society
Allione, Tsultrim. **Women of Wisdom**. New York: Arkana, 1986.
Havnevik, Hanna, **Tibetan Buddhist Nuns: History, Cultural
Norms and Social Reality**. Oxford, 1990.
Klein, Anne C. "[Primordial Purity and Everyday Life: Exalted
Female Symbols and the Women of Tibet."] In **Immaculate
and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality**,
ed. Clarissa W. Atkinson et al. 111-38. London, 1987.
Taring, [Mary] Dolma. **Daughter of Tibet**. Boston: Wisdom, 1987.
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. **Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha**.
New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1989.
Willis, Janice D., ed. **Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and
Tibet**. New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1989.

Korean Society
Batchelor, Martine. "Buddhist Nuns in Korea,"
**Karuna** (Winter 1990-1991): 16-18.
Samu Sunim. "Eunyeong Sunim and the Founding of Pomun-
jong, the First Independent Bhikshuni Order,"
**Spring Wind Buddhist Cultural Forum** (Special
issue on Women and Buddhism) 6/1,2,3 (1986): 129- 62.
"Manseong Sunim, A Woman Zen Master of Modern
Korea," **Spring Wind Buddhist Cultural Forum**
(Special issue on Women and Buddhism) 6/1,2,3 (1986): 188-93.

Japanese Society
Arai, Paula. (essay on Sootoo nuns) in **Religion and Society
in Modern Japan**, ed. Mark Mullins, et al. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press,
Blacker, Carmen, **The Catalpa Bow: A Study of
Shamanistic Practices in Japan** (1975)
Grapard, Allan G. "Visions of Excess and Excesses of
Vision: Women and Transgression in Japanese Myth,"
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 18/1 (1991): 3-22.
Hardacre, Helen, "The Cave and the Womb World,"
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 10/2-3
(1983): 149-76. "Gender and the Millenium in Omoto Kyodan,"
in **Innovation in Religious Traditions**, ed.
Michael Williams et al. (Berlin: Mouton, 1988).
Heidegger, Simone. Die Frau im japanischen buddhismus
der Kamakura-Zeit. Ph.D. diss. Magistra, Germany. 1993.
Igeta, Midori, "The Image of Women in Sermons,"
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 10/2-3 (1983): 247-72.
Kajiyama Yuichi. "Women in Buddhism." **The Eastern Buddhist** 15/2 (1982): 53-70.
Kaneko, Sachiko and Robert E. Morrell. "Sancturary:
Kamakura's Tokeiji Convent." **Japanese Journal of
Religious Studies** 10/2-3 (1983): 195-228.
Kawahashi, Noriko. (article on temple families in Somtom),
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** (forthcoming 1995)
King, Sallie B., "Egalitarian Philosophies in Sexist
Institutions," **Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion** 4/1 (Spring 1988), trans. **Passionate Journey: The Spiritual
Autobiography of Satomi Myodo**. Boston:
Shambhala, 1987. Rpt. **Journey in Search of the
Way: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myodo**. Ithaca: SUNY Press, 1992?
Miller, Alan L. "Myth and Gender in Japanese
Shamanism: The itako of Tohoku," **History of Religions** 32/4 (1993): 343-367.
Minamoto, Junko. "Buddhism and the Historical
Construction of Sexuality in Japan." **U.S.-Japan
Women's Journal: English Supplement** 6 (1993)
Morrell, Robert E., trans. "Mirror for Women: Muju
Ichien's Tsuma Kagami." **Monumenta Nipponica** 35/1 (1980): 45-75.
Nakamura, Kyoko. "No Women's Liberation: The Heritage
of a Woman Prophet in Modern Japan," in Nancy A.
Falk and Rita M. Gross (ed.), **Unspoken Worlds**
(1980), 174-190. "Revelatory Experience in the Female Life
Cycle: A Biographical Study of Women Religionists
in Modern Japan." **Japanese Journal of Religious
Studies** 8/3-4 (1981): 187-205.(editor). "Women and Religion in Japan,"
special issue of **Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 10/2-3 (1983).
Oguri, Junko, "Views on Women's Salvation in Japanese
Buddhism," **Young East** 10/1 (1984): 3-11.
Ooms, Emily Groszos. **Women and Millenarian Protest
in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Omotokyo** (Cornell U., 1993).
Robertson, Jennifer. "The Shingaku Woman: Straight
from the Heart," in **Recreating Japanese Women,
1600-1945**, ed. Gail Lee Bernstein (Berkeley: U. of Calif., 1991), 99-103.
Sato, Noriaki. "The Initiation of the Religious
Specialists `Kamisan': A Few Observations,"
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 8/3-4 (1981): 149-186.
Segawa, Kiyoko. "Menstrual Taboos Imposed upon Women."
In **Studies in Japanese Folklore** ed. Richard M.
Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1963.
Smyers, Karen, "Women and Shinto, **Japanese Religions** 12 (1983).
Takagi, Kiyoko, "Religion in the Life of Higuchi
Ichiyo," **Japanese Journal of Religious Studies**
10/2-3 (1983): 123-148. [**See** Danly **below**.]
Takemi, Momoko. "Menstruation Sutra Belief in Japan."
**Japanese Journal of Religious Studies** 10/2-3 (1983): 229-246.
Takiguchi, Naoko, "Liminal Experiences of Miyako
Shamans," **Asian Folklore Studies** 49/1 (1990), "Miyako Theology: Shamans' Interpretations of Traditional Beliefs," **Asian Folklore Studies**  46/1 (1987)
Uchino, Kumiko. "The Status Elevation Process of Soto
Sect Nuns in Modern Japan." **Japanese Journal of
Religious Studies** 10/2-3 (1983): 177-194.

Buddhism in Non-Asian Society
Boucher, Sandy. **Turning the Wheel: American Women
Creating the New Buddhism**. 1988. Rpt. New York:Beacon, 1994.
Friedman, Lenore. **Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist
Teachers in America**. Bostom: Shambhala, 1987.
Gross, **Buddhism after Patriarchy** (SUNY 1992)
Hopkinson, Deborah, et al. **Not Mixing Up Buddhism: Essays
on Women and Buddhist Practice**. New York: White Pine Press, 1986.
Sidor, Ellen S. **A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in
American Buddhism**. Cumberland, Rhode Island: Primary Point Press, 1987.

Other (Non-Religion) Studies on Japan
Ackroyd, Joyce. "Women in Feudal Japan,"
**Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan**, 3d series, vol. 7 (1959): 31-68.
Allison, Anne. **Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, an
Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club** (U. of Chicago, 1994)
Bernstein, Gail Lee (ed.). **Recreating Japanese
Women, 1600-1945** (Berkeley: U. of Calif., 1991).
"The Model Japanese Woman," **Journal of Japanese Studies** 6/2 (1980).
Bingham, Marjorie and Susan Gross. **Women in Japan
from Ancient Times to the Present** (St. Louis Park, MN: Glenhurst, 1987).
Canly, Robert. **In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The
Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo** (Yale, 1981).
Hane, Mikiso (trans.). **Reflections on the way to the
gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan** (Berkeley: U. of Calif., 1985).
Huber, Kristina R. **Women in Japanese society: an
annotated bibliography of selected English
language materials**. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Iwao, Sumiko. **The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image
and Changing Reality**. N.y.: Free Press, 1993.
Kato, Shidzue. **A Fight for Women's Happiness:
Pioneering the Family Planning Movement in Japan**. Tokyo, 1984.
Kaneko, Fumiko. **The prison memoirs of a Japanese
woman**, trans. Jean Inglis. NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.
Kondo, Dorinne. **Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and
Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace** (U. of Chicago, 1990).
Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. **Japanese Women: Constraint
and Fulfillment**. Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1984.
Lo, Jeannie, **Office Ladies/Factory Women** (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993).
Mamola, Claire Zebroski. **Japanese women writers in
English translation: an annotated bibliography**.
New York: Garland, 1989.
Mosk, Carl. "Nuptiality in Meiji Japan," **Journal of
Social History** 13/3 (1980): 474-489.
Mulhern, Chieko Irie (ed.). **Heroic with grace:
legenary women of Japan** (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991).
Nefsky, Marilyn F. **Stone houses and iron bridges:
tradition and the place of women in contemporary Japan** (1991).
Pharr, Susan. **Political Women in Japan** (U. of Calif., 1981).
Roberts, Glenda S. **Staying on the Line: Blue-collar
Women in Contemporary Japan**. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii, 1994.
Sievers, Sharon. "Feminist Criticism in Japanese
Politics in the 1880s," **Signs** 6/4 (1981): 602- 616.
**Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of
Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan** (Stanford, 1983).
Smith, Robert J. "Gender Inequality in Contemporary
Japan," **Journal of Japanese Studies** 13/1 (1987): 1-25.
Smith, Robert J. and Ella Lury Wisewell. **The Women
of Suye Mura**. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1982. [**See** Wisewell **below**.]
Tsurumi, E. Patricia. **Factory Girls: Women in the
Thread Mills of Meiji Japan** (Princeton, 1990).
Ushioda, Sharlie. "Fukuda Hideko and the Woman's World
of Meiji Japan," in **Japan in Transition, 1868-
1912**, ed. Hilary Conroy et al. (London: Ass. Univ. Press, 1984).
Walthall, Anne. "The Life Cycle of Farm Women in
Tokugawa Japan," in **Recreating Japanese Women,
1600-1945**, ed. Gail Bernstein (Berkeley: U. of Calif., 1991).
Wisewell, Ella. 1988. "Suye Mura fifty years later,"
**American Ethnologist** 15/2.

Please send additions and corrections to:
William Bodiford: ibfbwmb@mvs.oac.ucla.edu