Divine love [[electronic resource] ] : Luce Irigaray, women, gender and religion / / Morny Joy

• Autore: Joy Morny
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory; Sex role; Sex differences - Religious aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 9780719055232; 9780719055232; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction: encountering Irigaray; Chapter 1: What's God got to do with it?; Chapter 2: Cartesian meditations; Chapter 3: Effacements: Emmanuel Levinas and Irigaray; Chapter 4: Love and the labour of the negative:Irigaray and Hegel; Chapter 5: Homo- and heterogeneous zones:Irigaray and Mary Daly; Chapter 6: Irigaray's eastern excursion; Chapter 7: Conclusion: a world of difference; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Divine love' explores the work of Luce Irigaray for the first time from the perspective of Religious Studies. The book examines the development of religious themes in Irigaray's work from 'Speculum of the Other Woman', in which she rejects traditional forms of western religion, to her more recent explorations of eastern religions. Irigaray's ideas on love, the divine, the ethics of sexual difference and normative heterosexuality are analysed and placed in the context of the reception of her work by secular feminists such as Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, as well as by fe
• Titolo autorizzato: Divine love
• ISBN: 1-84779-525-0; 1-78170-079-6; 1-84779-148-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465697603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Manchester studies in religion, culture, and gender.