The essay teases out the underlying issues that inform these studies and considers their implications for both Buddhist and women's studies. Koppe-drayer examines four such works-Rita Gross's Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism, June Campbell's Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism, Anne Klein's Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self, and Winnie Tomm's Bodied Mindfulness: Women's Spirits, Bodies, and Places which were published within a span of three years during the mid-1990s and which draw on feminist and Buddhist sources to pursue questions related to the construction of women and women's subjectivity. Recent years have seen a number of writers draw upon Buddhist thought in their articulations of feminist epistemology.
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