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

March 17, 2017 adminAlternative History

By Morny Joy

'Divine love' explores the paintings of Luce Irigaray for the 1st time from the point of view of spiritual reviews. The publication examines the improvement of spiritual subject matters in Irigaray's paintings from 'Speculum of the opposite Woman', during which she rejects conventional sorts of western faith, to her newer explorations of jap religions. Irigaray's rules 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 way of secular feminists similar to Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, in addition to by way of feminists in non secular experiences akin to Pamela Sue Anderson, Ellen Armour, Amy Hollywood and beauty Jantzen. ultimately, Irigaray's personal non secular course, which has been prompted through jap religions, in particular 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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