God Between Their Lips

Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot

• Author(s): Kathryn Bond Stockton,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 273
• ISBN_10: 0804723443
  ISBN_13: 9780804723442
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Feminist , Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory ,

Description:... This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism": the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialities—a sob in the body or the body itself—has so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter-on-its-own-terms, and material relations that still lie submerged, hidden from view, evoke the shadowy forms we call "spiritual."