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The Sacred and the Feminine
Imagination and Sexual Difference
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The Sacred and the Feminine
Imagination and Sexual Difference
About this book
The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Cathérine Clément's famous ecumenical 'conversation' of the same name which focussed on the relationship between meaning and the body at whose interface the feminine is positioned. Brought to the wider public as the 'sacred feminine', it has also made its mark on popular culture. Taking up the debate and moving beyond anthropology or theology, writers from varied ethnic, geo-cultural and religious perspectives here join with secular cultural analysts to explore the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. The book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', exploring the ways in which visual practices have explored this rich, contested and highly charged territory.
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Yes, you can access The Sacred and the Feminine by Griselda Pollock,Victoria Turvey-Sauron in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Preface: New Encounters - Griselda Pollock
- Editors' Introduction - Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey Sauron
- 1. Sacred Cows: Wandering in Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Anthropology - Griselda Pollock
- 2. The Priestess of Athena Grows a Beard: Latent Citizenship in Ancient Greek Women's Ritual - Barbara Goff
- 3. The Sacred, the Feminine and French Feminist Theory - Daphne Hampson
- 4. The Feminine, the Sacred and the Shared: The Ecumenical Space of the Sufi Dargah - Ananya Jahanara Kabir
- 5. The Sacred and the Feminine: An Africa Response to Clement and Kristeva - Molara Ogundipe
- 6. The Becoming-Woman of the East/West Conflict: The Western Sacralization of Life and the Feminine Politics of Death - Maria Margaroni
- 7. Enunciating the Christian Dieue and Obscuring the Other: A Quebec Perspective - Denise Couture
- 8. Sringara Rasa: The Feminist Call of the Spiritual/Erotic Impulse in Indian Art - Ranjana Thapalyal
- 9. Stabat Mater - A Nameless Place: Film, the Feminine and the Sacred - Nina Danino
- 10. Kathleen Raine: Poetry and Myth as Constructions of the Sacred and the Secret - Celine Boyer
- 11. Paula Rego's (Her)ethical Visions - Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
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- 12. From Leda to Daphne: Sacrifice and Virginity in the Work of Ana Mendieta - Anne Creissels
- 13. Inside-Out: Sculpting Sacred Space in Bernini and Bourgeois - Victoria Turvey Sauron
- 14. The Word Made Flesh: Re-embodying the Madonna and Child in Helen Chadwick's 'One Flesh' - Leila McKellar
- 15. Something to Show for It? Notes on Creativity and Termination in the Work of Tracey Emin - Vanessa Corby
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index