God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and EliotStanford University Press, 1994 - 273 pages This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism": the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialities a sob in the body or the body itself has so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter-on-its-own-terms, and material relations that still lie submerged, hidden from view, evoke the shadowy forms we call "spiritual." |
Contents
Poststructuralist Feminists | 3 |
Irigarays Erotics of | 40 |
Labour Is Ever | 61 |
Interlude | 93 |
Recollecting Charlotte Brontë | 99 |
Recognizing George Eliot | 166 |
The Domestication | 193 |
Postlude | 251 |
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God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot Kathryn Bond Stockton No preview available - 1994 |
God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot Kathryn Bond Stockton No preview available - 2022 |
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