French Feminists on Religion: A Reader

Bevat essays van Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig en Catherine Clément over feminisme en religie. Elk van deze feministische denkers wordt geïntroduceerd door een bibliografische beschrijving en elk essay bevat een toelichting over het belang van de tekst voor de bestudering van religie. Part 1: Luce Irigaray: 'Plato's Hystera' (abr.) from 'Speculum of the other woman'; 'La Mystérique' from 'Speculum of the other woman'; 'Divine women' (abr.) from 'Sexes and genealogies'; 'When the Gods are born' (abr.) from 'Marine lover of Friedrich Nietzsche'; 'Sexual difference' (abr.) from 'An ethics of sexual difference'; 'The forgotten mystery of female ancestry' (abr.) from 'Thinking the difference: for a peaceful revolution'; 'Practical teachings: love - between passion and civility' (abr.) from 'I love to you: sketch of a possible felicity in history'. Part 2: Julia Kristeva: 'Approaching abjection' (abr.) and 'Semiotics of biblical abomination' (abr.) from 'Powers of horror: an essay on abjection'; 'Credence-credit' (abr.) and 'Credo' (abr.) from 'In the beginning was love: psychoanalysis and faith'; 'Stabat mater' from 'Tales of love'; 'Psychoanalysis - a counterdepressant' (abr.) and 'Holbein's dead Christ' (abr.) from 'Black sun: depression and melancholia'; 'The chosen people and the choice of foreignness' from 'Strangers to ourselves'; 'Reading the bible' from 'New maladies of the soul'. Part 3: Catherine Clément: 'Sorceress and hysteric' (abr.) from 'The newly born woman'; 'The child, the savage' (abr.) from 'The newly born woman'; 'Where am I?' (abr.) from 'Syncope: the philosophy of rapture'; 'Jouissances: between the angel and the placenta' (abr.) from 'Syncope: the philosophy of rapture'. Part 4: Hélène Cixous: 'Sorties' (abr.) from 'The newly born woman'; 'The author in truth' (abr.) from 'Coming to writing and other essays'; 'Coming to writing' (abr.) from 'Coming to writing and other essays'; 'Grace and innocence: Heinrich von Kleist' (abr.) from 'Readings: the poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva'; 'The school of dreams' (abr.) from 'Three steps on the ladder of writing'; 'Writing blind' (abr.) from 'Stigmata: escaping texts'. Part 5: Monique Wittig: 'The lesbian body' (excerpts).