French Feminists on Religion: A Reader

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
• Published by: Routledge
• Edition: 1st Edition December 29, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0415215382
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415215381
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review
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.
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.
–Kelley Raab, St. Lawrence University Religious Studies Review, October 2002

This is the first publication in English that brings together these feminists on the topic of religioninclude[s] the most well-known essays as well as some of the more recent essays Australian Feminist Studies 2003.

Product Description
This collection gathers together, for the first time, writings on religion from the major voices in French feminism including Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, Brossard, Chawaf, Clement, Marchessault and Wittig. Among the topics debated are the significance of the Virgin Mary in Catholic theology; the theological importance of love; the repression of the maternal in Judeo-Christian tradition; Judeo-Christian notions of sin, defilement, purity and redemption; feminine subjectivity and divinity; and new religious meanings from ancient goddess traditions.