The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)
Contributors: Griselda Pollock (Editor); Victoria Turvey-Sauron (Editor)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris; In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781845115203
Subjects: Cultural studies; Feminism; Literary studies: general; Theory of art; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; General; History - General; Social Science / Gender Studies
Description: The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement's famous ecumenical "Conversation" of the same name which focused on the relationship between meaning and the body at whose interface the feminine is positioned. Brought to the wider public as the 'sacred feminine', it has also made its mark on popular culture. Taking up the debate and moving beyond anthropology or theology, writers from varied ethnic, geo-cultural and religious perspectives here join with secular cult.