Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Three: Sexuality and Language -- Logic -- Inscribing Meaning -- Hermeneutics of Scepticism -- Hermeneutics of Affirmation: Constructing Alternatives -- Notes -- Four: Ethics of Connectedness and Resistance -- Ontology and Epistemology in Ethics -- Power and Trust -- Self-Interest -- Resisting Oppression -- Notes -- Five: Exclusionary Politics at Work -- Insider/Outsider Identities -- Bad Girl/Good Girl Sexual Power -- Social/Sexual Contract -- Work and Economics -- Working in the Family -- Notes -- Six: Towards 'Living With' -- Living with Uncertainty -- Environment, Ecology, and Ecofeminism -- New Images -- Interpretive Drifts -- Paradigm Shift Toward Integrating Spiritual and Social Realities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.