Amy P. Langenberg

[...]a number of recent studies of female teachers and communities in Tibet and Bhutan have explored the special importance that female deities and religious exemplars hold for female practitioners of Vajrayäna. [...]Gross appears to be uninterested in feminism as an intellectual tradition, eschewing a serious engagement with the last three-quarters-century of feminist theory for a simplistic encounter with feminism as a blunt-headed ideology. [...]her prison-of-gender concept is deeply problematic from the perspective of important postmodern strands of feminist theory. [...]Gross complains that she cannot be expected to address all relevant social justice issues as "there are practical limitations to how much time and energy one can put into the many causes and issues that are all worthy" (145).