Luce Irigaray, women, gender, and religion
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Joy, Morny
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2006
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, religie, spiritualiteit, postkolonialisme, seksuele differentie, heteroseksualiteit
- Description
- Divine Love explores the work of Luce Irigaray. Her work stands at the intersection of contemporary debates concerned with culture, gender and religion, but her ideas have not yet been presented in a comprehensive way from the perspective of Religious Studies. This book tries to examine the development of religious themes from Irigaray’s initial work, Speculum of the Other Woman, where she rejects traditional forms of western religions, to her more recent explorations of eastern religions. Irigaray’s ideas on love, the divine, an ethics of sexual difference, and normative heterosexuality are analysed. These analyses are placed in the context of the reception of Irigaray’s work by secular feminists such as Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, as well as by feminists in Religious Studies such as Pamela Sue Anderson, Ellen Armour, Amy Hollywood and Grace Jantzen. Finally, Irigaray’s own spiritual path, which has been influenced by eastern religions is evaluated in the light of recent theoretical developments in orientalism and postcolonialism.