Reading "Buddhist Nuns in Nepal" Kathryn Lafever
-In her article "Buddhist Nuns in Nepal," Kathryn Lafever uses the term "situated empowerment" to describe the nuns' efforts to negotiate the particular constraints placed upon them. An example of the nuns' situated empowerment is

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Lafever explains that the nuns' situated empowerment comes from finding ways to navigate the gendered power dynamics in their particular context. One example she gives is the nuns' decision to study and interpret Buddhist texts for themselves, which allows them to challenge traditional gendered interpretations and assert their own authority. The other options, such as corresponding with Western feminists or using the Internet, are not explicitly linked to the nuns' situated empowerment in the article. Shaving their heads is a traditional practice among Buddhist nuns, but it is not directly tied to their negotiation of constraints in the same way that studying and interpreting texts is.