God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot

by Kathryn Bond Stockton

Book Overview

This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Bront , and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism" the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialities--a sob in the body or the body itself--has so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter-on-its-own-terms, and material relations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723125
• ISBN13: 9780804723121
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"