God between their lips : desire between women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot
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God between their lips : desire between women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot
Stanford University Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index
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Description
This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Bronte, 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."
Table of Contents
Abbreviations Introduction Part I: 1. Bodies and God: post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism 2. Divine loss: Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture 3. Lacking/labor Part II: 4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte 5. Working for God autoerotically: approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Bronte's Villette 6. Recognizing George Eliot 7. At home with desire: the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch Postlude Notes Index.
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