Divine Love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion by Morny Joy PDF

By Morny Joy

ISBN-10: 0719055237

ISBN-13: 9780719055232

ISBN-10: 0719055245

ISBN-13: 9780719055249

'Divine love' explores the paintings of Luce Irigaray for the 1st time from the point of view of non secular experiences. The booklet examines the advance of spiritual subject matters in Irigaray's paintings from 'Speculum of the opposite Woman', during which she rejects conventional types of western faith, to her more moderen explorations of jap religions. Irigaray's principles on love, the divine, the ethics of sexual distinction and normative heterosexuality are analysed and positioned within the context of the reception of her paintings by means of secular feminists resembling Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, in addition to by way of feminists in non secular experiences equivalent to Pamela Sue Anderson, Ellen Armour, Amy Hollywood and charm Jantzen. ultimately, Irigaray's personal religious direction, which has been inspired via jap religions, particularly the disciplines of yoga and tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism, is evaluated at the gentle of contemporary theoretical advancements in orientalism and postcolonialism.

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