Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist AnalysisOxford University Press, 12 de maig 1994 - 216 pàgines In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion. |
Continguts
| 3 | |
The Body and Gender | 19 |
The Body as Site for Religious Imagination | 41 |
The Body as Sign for Religious Imagination | 63 |
Site Sign and Imagination | 87 |
Mapping Religion | 109 |
Notes | 131 |
Select Bibliography | 153 |
Exhibition Catalogues | 169 |
Index | 171 |
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Alicia Partnoy Argentina artifact authority becomes central challenge Chapter Christian claims cognition concept woman consciousness construction context contrast Cooey critical critique cultural determinist depends discourse Elaine Scarry emotion ence epistemological essentialist example feeling female body Feminism Feminist Theologies feminist theory focuses Frida Kahlo further Furthermore gender difference Harper & Row Herrera human body identity imagery images interaction interpretation issue jouissance Judith Plaskow language liberation male mapping Mary Daly meaning moral Morton narrative nature Nel's nevertheless oppression pain and pleasure painting Partnoy's patriarchal perspective phallogocentric physical Pilate Dead political Postmodern Press presupposes provides Raquel Partnoy reality reflects relation religious experience religious imagination religious symbol systems religious traditions resistance response retablo role played Scarry scholars sensation sense sensuality sentience sexual difference significance social Song of Solomon status struggle subjectivity substantialist Sula Sula's theological theorists tion Toni Morrison trans University visual women York
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Pàgina 73 - Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art form she became dangerous.
Pàgina 85 - When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock — to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
Pàgina 75 - So she will walk on down that road, her back so straight in that old green coat . . . thinking how much I have cost her and never remember the days when we were two throats and one eye and we had no price.
Pàgina 78 - After their mother died, she had come struggling out of the womb without help from throbbing muscles or the pressure of swift womb water. As a result, for all the years he knew her, her stomach was as smooth and sturdy as her back, at no place interrupted by a navel.
Pàgina 76 - All that time, all that time, I thought I was missing Jude." And the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. "We was girls together,'' she said as though explaining something.
Pàgina 144 - Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Pàgina 89 - A new cry makes its way through the shadows fighting above the trailer. Graciela has just given birth. A prisoner child has been born. While the killers' hands welcome him into the world, the shadow of life leaves the scene, half a winner, half a loser: on her shoulders she wears a poncho of injustice. Who knows how many children are born every day at the Little...
Pàgina 59 - Physical pain, then, is an intentional state without an intentional object; imagining is an intentional object without an experienceable intentional state. Thus, it may be that in some peculiar way it is appropriate to think of pain as the imagination's intentional state, and to identify the imagination as pain's intentional object.
Pàgina 26 - Our first task, it seems, is to always thoroughly dissociate 'women' (the class within which we fight) and 'woman,' the myth. For 'woman' does not exist for us: it is only an imaginary formation, while 'women' is the product of a social relationship.