IntroductionPart 1: Women, Gender and Buddhism: Three Key Periods of Japanese History 1. Women, Gender and Buddhism in Japanese History: Ancient and Medieval Periods 2. Female Practitioners in the Edo and Early Meiji Periods 3. Women in Japanese Buddhism from 1900 to 2023Part 2: Gendered Spaces, Gendering Spaces 4. Gendered Practice Halls: Jishū in the 14th and 15th Centuries 5. Working through Gender in Buddhist SpacesPart 3: Music, Sound and Performative Practice 6. Visions of Lumbini: Music, Buddhism and Women's Organizations in Early 20th-Century Japan7. The Women Behind the Spread of Honganji Shin-Buddhism in Pre-World War II Hawai'i: The English Buddhist Hymns of Dorothy Hunt (1886-1983)8.

Women's Voices in Ritual Vocalization: Moving Beyond Biological BoundariesPart 4: Gendered Sexuality and Embodiment 9. The Depraved Empress: Sexuality and Womanhood in the Demonization of Empress ShÅtÅku 10. Questioning the Shaven Head: Hair, Commitment and Gendered Presentation among Ordained Women in Contemporary Nichiren BuddhismPart 5: Medicine, Healthcare and Longevity Rituals 11. Beyond Obstructions and Pollutions: Women, Buddhism and Healing in Pre-Modern Japan 12. Inside the Womb: Buddhism and the Female Body in the Edo Period 13. Health and Well Being as Ordained Women's Buddhist PracticePart 6: Material and Visual Culture 14. Hair-related Practices and Female Religiosity in Japanese Buddhism15. Lavish Materiality: Visual Ornamentation as Skillful Means in Japan's Heian and Kamakura Periods16.

Women and Buddhism through Material Culture: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood from Early Modern to Contemporary JapanPart 7: Reflections on the Field 17. DÅgen's Message and Early Modern SÅtÅ Nuns in Japan 18. Reflections on the Household System and its Impact on Gender Inequality in Japanese Buddhism.