The sacred and the feminine : imagination and sexual difference ; edited by Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey Sauron

Other Authors: Pollock, Griselda, Turvey, Suron Victoria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007
Series:New Encounters : Arts, cultures, concepts
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: 1 Sacred cows: wandering in feminism, psychoanalysis and anthropology, 2 The priestess of Athena grows a beard: latest citizenship in ancient Greek womenʹs ritual practice, 3 The sacred, the feminine and French feminist theory, 4 The feminine, the sacred and the shared: the ecumenical space of the Sufi Dargah, 5 The sacred and the feminine: an African response to Cle?ment and Kristeva, 6 The becoming-woman of the East/West conflict: the Western sacralization of life and the feminine politics of death, 7 Enunciating the christian Dieue and obscuring the other: a Que?bec perspective, Part II: 9 Stabat Mater- a nameless place: film, the feminine and the sacred, 10 Kathleen Raine: poetry and myth as constructions of the sacred and the secret, 11 Paula Regoʹs (her)ethical visions, 12 From leda to Daphne: sacrifice and virginity in the work of Ana Mendieta, 13 Inside-out: sculpting sacred in Bernini and Bourgeois, 14 The word made flesh: re-embodying the Madonna and child in Helen Chadwickwʹs One Flesh, 15 Something to show for it? Notes on creativity and termination in the work of Tracey Emin.