O mother, where art thou? : an Irigarayan reading of the book of Chronicles / Julie Kelso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelso, Julie, 1970-

Series:

Bible world (London, England)

BibleWorld

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce.

Bible. Chronicles--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Mothers in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: A Question of Silence

"All Israel" and the "Inclusive Ideology of Identity" in Chronicles

pt. I. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Hebrew Bible: "Introducing" Luce Irigaray

Ch. 1. "The Monopoly of the Origin" and the Mute Foundation of Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Luce Irigaray

Ch. 2. Remembering the Forgotten Mother: Engaging with Chronicles in an Irigarayan Mode

pt. II. Our Production of a Past, in the Present of Analaysis: Engaging with the Book of Chronicles

Ch. 3. Who Begets Whom? Disavowing the Maternal Body: 1 Chronicles 1-9

Ch. 4. The Debt-Free Masculine Subject: The Repressed Maternal Body in 1 Chronicles 10-2 Chronicles 36.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-241) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-315-71103-6

1-317-49072-X

1-84553-468-9

1-281-74513-8

9786611745134

9781315711034

OCLC:

922957414