Bodily citations : religion and Judith Butler / edited by Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armour, Ellen T., 1959-

St. Ville, Susan M., 1963-

Series:

Gender, theory, and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Butler, Judith, 1956-.

Butler, Judith.

Feminist theory.

Sex role--Religious aspects.

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

xxi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]

Summary:

While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, this is the first anthology where anthropologists, theologians, and biblical scholars apply her theories to religion.

Contents:

Introduction

Judith Butler-in theory / Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville

Textual bodies

Materializations of virtue : Buddhist discourses on bodies / Susanne Mrozik

The Garden of Eden and the heterosexual contract / Ken Stone

The annoying woman : biblical scholarship after Judith Butler / Teresa J. Hornsby

Embodying identities

Disturbingly Catholic : thinking the inordinate body / Karen Trimble Alliaume

Unconforming becomings : the significance of Whitehead's novelty and Butler's subversion for the repetitions of lesbian identity and the expansion of the future / Christina K. Hutchins

Turning on/to ethics / Claudia Schippert

Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood

Theorizing bodies

"Judith Butler" in my hands / Rebecca Schneider

Performativity, citationality, ritualization / Amy Hollywood

Afterword / Judith Butler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-295) and index.

ISBN:

0231134061

023113407X

0231508646

OCLC:

62509105

Publisher Number:

9780231134071