Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius

by Alison E. Jasper

Because of Beauvoir does what many say is impossible: it demonstrates how women can flourish, without conflict, while being simultaneously Christian and feminist. Alison Jasper offers a vision of Julia Kristeva's female genius as the capacity of women to thrive and cultivate intellect within and across different cultural and theological environments. Using the writings of English women from the 17th through the 21st centuries as living profiles, Jasper draws upon the creative power in the lives of real women to recognize and retrieve a female subjectivity--one that determines how women see and are seen after Simone de Beauvoir.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602583218
• ISBN13: 9781602583214
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher