French Feminists On Religion

"A strength of the book is its effective balancing of essays that critique traditional religious structures and those that construct radical new modes of thinking about the divine. Particularly helpful are the bibliography and the brief descriptions of works undergoing translation into English when the book went to press. <br> The collection is well suited for scholars of French feminism, feminist studies in religion, and feminist psychanalytic theory, as well as for graduate students working in these areas."<br>-Kelley Raab, St. Lawrence University "Religious Studies Review, October 2002 <br>"This is the first publication in English that brings together these feminists on the topic of religion...include[s] the most well-known essays as well as some of the more recent essays "Australian Feminist Studies 2003."<br>

Permissions Acknowledgements Preface Foreword by Catherine Clement (translated by Sharon Hackett and Morny Joy) Introduction 'French Feminisms in Religious Studies' by Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady and Judith L. Poxon. Luce Irgaray: 'Plato's Hystera'(abridged from Speculum of the Other Woman La Mysterique from Speculum of the Other Woman 'Divine Women' (abridged) from Sexes and Genealogies 'When the Gods are Born' (abridged) from Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche 'Sexual Difference' (abridged) from An Ethics of Sexual DifferenceI 'The Forgotten Mystery of Female Ancestry (abridged) from Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful Revolution 'Practical Teachings: Love - Between Passion and Civility' (abridged) from I Love to You: Sketch of a POssible Felicity Julia Kristeva: 'Approaching Abjection' (abridged) and 'Semiotics of Biblical Abonomation' (abridged) from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 'Credence Credit' and 'Credo' (abridged) from In the Beginning was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith 'Stabat Mater' from Tales of Love 'Psychoanalysis - A Counter Depressant' (abridged) and 'Holbein's Dead Christ' (abridged)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 Catherine Clement: 'Sorceress and Hysteric' from The Newly Born Woman 'The Child, The Savage' from The Newly Born Woman 'Where am I?' (abridged) from Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture 'Jouissances: Between the Angel and the Placenta' (abridged) from Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture Helene Cixous 'Sorties' (abridged) from The Newly Born Woman 'The Author in Truth' (abridged) from Coming to Writing 'Coming to Writing' (abridged) from Coming to Writing 'Grace and Innocence: Heinrich von Kleist' (abridged) from Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva 'The School of Dreams' (abridged) from Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing 'Writing Blind' (abridged) from Stigmata: Escaping Texts Monique Wittig Excerpts from The Lesbian Body Bibliography Index