O Mother, Where Art Thou?
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- Publisher:
- Acumen Publishing
- Publication date:
- 05 June 2014
- 31 January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9781845534684
- 9781845533236
- 9781845533243
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
- Series:
- BibleWorld
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Book description
The Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity. O Mother, Where Art Thou? argues that Chronicles has two principal strategies of silencing women: disavowal and repression of the maternal body. The silencing of women is enacted by excluding them from the central action. The disavowal of the maternal body as 'origin' of the masculine subject effects and guarantees the silence of the feminine, enabling 'man' to imagine himself as sole producer of his world. O Mother, Where Art Thou? argues that Chronicles depends on the absence and silence of women for its imaginary coherence. The book suggests that the work of Luce Irigaray offers a viable mode of reading, writing, listening, and speaking as 'woman', enabling a rigorous, feminist critique of patriarchy.
Reviews
"A fascinating example of Irigarayan commentary. It is successful in demonstrating how the text can be opened up to new meanings by approaching it in this way, by both exposing its masculinist omissions and, most significantly, by giving voice to the silenced.'"
Source: Biblical Interpretation
"This books offers stimulating, creative and fruitful investigations into the book of Chronicles that benefit from the feminist-theoretical grounding in Irigaray's work.'"
Source: Review of Biblical Literature
"This is an important book, one I hope will be much read and discussed.'"
Source: Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
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