Sacrificed Lives

Kristeva on Women and Violence

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

"In this well-crafted and scholarly work, Reineke argues that an analysis of the contemporary culture of violence through the lens of gender reveals a sacrificial economy." —Religious Studies Review" . . . handled with the kind of concise, cogent, and insightful criticism that readers of Reineke have come to expect . . . " —Women's Studies International Forum"By elaborating key notions of Kristeva in the context of her questions about violence, Reineke develops aspects of Kristeva's work that will interest not only students of Kristeva, but those who are interested in all forms of social violence, feminist theory, and women's issues as well." —Tamsin LorraineWhy did medieval women mystics starve themselves? Why were "witches" hunted, tortured, and killed? Why has the Christian West found maternal figures threatening? To answer these questions, Reineke advances a theory of sacrifice, inspired by Julia Kristeva and René Girard, that attempts to account for women's special vulnerability to violence in Western culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-10-22
Mått:156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253211286

Utforska kategorier

Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Martha J. Reineke is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.

Innehållsförteckning

Part IChapter 1 IntroductionI. Framing the Problem of ViolenceII. Kristeva's Psychoanalytic Theory: A Helpful Resource for Feminists?III. An Outline of Life-SentencesChapter 2 Kristeva in Context: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and BeyondI. The Lacanian Context: Human Existence as a Practice of AbsenceII. The Lacanian Context Subverted: Kristeva's Theory of the UnconsciousIII. The Lacanian Context Enfleshed: Kristeva's Theory of SacrificeIV. A Critical Context: Kristeva and Feminist TheoryA. Kristeva and Social ConstructionismB. Kristeva and a Libidinal EconomyChapter 3 The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Death-Work and AgencyI. Drive Theory and Human AgencyII. Drive Theory and the Maternal BodyIII. Drive Theory and the Fort/Da GameIV. Drive Theory, Laughter, and the SignChapter 4 In Search of the Mother in Mimesis: From Death-Work to SacrificeI. From Heterogeneity to the Symbolic OrderII. An Orderly Death: Sacrifice and the SymbolicIII. RenÇ Girard: Mimesis and MurderA. Mimetic DesireB. Surrogate VictimizationC. Ritual and MythIV. Kristeva: Mimesis, Mother, and MurderA. Mimetic DesireB. Victimization and Sexual DifferenceC. Coding Matricide: Abjection, Defilement, Ritual SacrificeV. ConclusionPart IIChapter 5 'This Is My Body:' Abjection, Anorexia, and Medieval Women MysticsI. Drawing the Line Somewhere: The Construction of Social OrderA. Eating Order: Food and the Social BodyB. Out of Order: Women and the Social BodyII. Holy Women, Holy Food, and Holy OrderIII. Crossing the Line: Abjection and the AbyssChapter 6 'The Devils Are Come Down Upon Us:' The Witch as ScapegoatI. The Witch in Historical PerspectiveII. The Witch as ScapegoatIII. The Witch in Mythic PerspectiveIV. Witch Hunts and the Work of a Sacrificial EconomyA. The Truth of TortureB. The Truth of SacrificeChapter 7 Life-Sentences: The Mother in the Cultural Archives of the WestI. Time's TruthII. Femme Enceinte: Pregnant Body-PoliticsIII. The Scapegoat Among Us and the Stranger WithinA. Analysis as a Practice of StrangenessB. From Fascinated Rejection to Familiar StrangenessC. A Cautionary Tale of HoffmannIV. In Quest of a Strange Politics: Religion, Feminism, Elsewhere?