Religious Imagination and the Body A Feminist Analysis

Name: Religious Imagination and the Body A Feminist Analysis
Price: 7.96 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195087352

ISBN-10: 0195087356

ISBN-13: 9780195087352

Edition: 1994

Authors: Paula M. Cooey

List price: $195.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $7.96

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.57" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Paula M. Cooey is Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she has taught since 1981.




Introduction



The Body and Gender



The Body as Site for Religious Imagination



The Body as Sign for Religious Imagination



Site, Sign, and Imagination



Mapping Religion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Exhibition Catalogues


Index