God between their lips : desire between women in Irigaray, Bronte, and Eliot
Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)—to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism."
Print Book, English, 1994
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1994
XXIII, 273 p. 23 cm
9780804723442, 0804723443
1014614436
Abbreviations Introduction Part I: 1. Bodies and God: post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism 2. Divine loss: Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture 3. Lacking/labor Part II: 4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte 5. Working for God autoerotically: approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Bronte's Villette 6. Recognizing George Eliot 7. At home with desire: the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch Postlude Notes Index.