Divine Women? Irigaray, God, and the Subject

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Susan Hekman
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Men I ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Feminine Subject

One of the central themes of contemporary feminist literature is the exclusion of the female subject from the Western tradition. Luce Irigaray has made significant contributions to this literature. In this article I examine one aspect of Irigaray’s work on the feminine subject, her discussion of divine women. She argues that in order to achieve full subjectivity women must worship a female god that will give them the divinity that they lack, the divinity that the patriarchal god provides for men. I argue that this thesis is both counterproductive and incoherent. It perpetuates the male/female binarism that is at the root of patriarchy. It also fails to define the concept of a female god which is at the centre of Irigaray’s argument. I conclude that the approach of process theology is much more successful in removing the maleness of God and providing women with a deity compatible with feminist beliefs.

All About Eve – Les Miroirs d’Eve et au-delà

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Ioana Ciovârnache
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Stage ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Subject Identification ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Feminine Subject

"All About Eve – Mirrors of Eve and What Lies Beyond. Taking as a starting point the play of identifications in All About Eve, this paper focuses on theatre as a function in the constitution of the feminine subject. Something emerges in the relation between the characters, but also something is produced beyond this relation. The theatre-function is complemented by the scansion introduced by the mirror; the mirror is a place of disjunction on the journey of the subject. Further on, we look at how this theatre-function has a correspondent in the cinematic succession of repeating, enacting and creating in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s movie Nun va goldoon, which allows its characters to exit the series of identifications. Keywords: mirror stage, self, subject, identification, desire. "

Learning from Disequilibrium and Educating the Feminine Voice in Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Female Voice ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
University Education ◽  
Biological Origin ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Alternative Idea

This article broaches what can sometimes be seen as the suppression of the female voice, sometimes the repression of the feminine. To address these matters involves the reconsideration of the political discourse that pervades education and educational research. This article is an attempt to disclose inequity in apparently equitable space, through the acknowledgment of the voice of disequilibrium. It proposes to re-place the subject of philosophy, and the subject of woman, through an alternative idea of the feminine voice in philosophy. It tries to reconfigure the female voice without negating its fated biological origin and traits, and yet avoiding the confining of thought to the constraints of gender divides. In terms of education, it shall argue for the conversation of justice as a way of cultivating the feminine voice in philosophy: as the voice of disequilibrium. This is an occasion of mutual destabilization and transformation of man and woman, crossing gender divides, and preparing an alternative route to political criticism that not only reclaims the rights of women but releases the thinking of men and women, laying the way for a better, more pluralist, and more democratic politics. The feminine voice can find a way beyond the dominance of instrumental rationality and calculative thinking in the discourse on equity itself. And it can, one might reasonably hope, have an impact on the curriculum of university education.

Dieva mīlestības koncepts saistībā ar bāreņu tēmu latviešu tautasdziesmās

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Eva Mārtuža
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
The One ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The Latvian folk songs include the version of God’s love and the concept of God as a creative creature, which I will see in relation to the subject of mourning, pregnant women, orphans (for the sake of clarity, orphans) as a particularly sensitive reflection of society. The poetic layer of these songs reveals Latvian mentality, basic ethical and aesthetic values, and the nation’s understanding of God’s love for the most vulnerable members of society, using vivid symbolism and metaphors. Orphans do not question the existence of God, they see it as a comprehensive, unifying, self-respecting, compassionate, and understanding creature. We do not find proof that there is no God at all. In symbolic images, there is a proven belief in one God you understand. In this sense, there is a similarity with the assumption of process theology about God’s existence as an open concept in a situation where it is impossible to offer any other proof of God’s existence. In their lives, orphans encounter God as a responsive, creative, optimistic love; God encourages an orphan to learn, be smart, be morally complete, live with pleasure, not indulge in pessimism, and be creative. The abstract nature of God is depicted in two ways. On the one hand, God has all the power that a creature may have; on the other hand, God does not have all the power that exists because the creatures he creates also have the power that allows them to choose good or evil opportunities in their own lives. Evil is the choice of people to be cruel to the weaker. The folklore researchers also believe that this set of folk songs belongs to the most realistic, even natural songs because they are based on the direct observation of life, express frustration with this life, and the desire to make what they want into reality seeking support from God. In this situation, God is both responsive and compassionate to a human and a person who does not interfere in events. The orphan must learn to see the positive power of the love offered by God and, together with God’s involvement, to discover human self-worth, create the beautiful, seek creative self-fulfilment and creativity as the most desirable expression of spiritual existence. God exists as the originator of this process.

scholarly journals Rethinking Language in Irigaray’s Mimesis Applied in David Mamet’s Oleanna

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 2357-2362
Author(s):  
Shahrzad Mohammad Hossein ◽  
Narges Raoufzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
David Mamet ◽  
The Subject

Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the subject of much debate among writers and critics. So writers and critics, both men and women have reflected this issue in their works in different ways. From the very outset of her career, Luce Irigaray showed a keen interest in the exploration of the key role that language has in determining how women are evaluated in their society and the position they hold in it. In order to show resistance to masculine values imposed on them, women resort to strongholds such as mimesis in opposition. This paper aims to primarily, trace the backgrounds of this notion, secondly, to pursue the effect and use of it by women characters and to depict in what way it is employed as a means of resistance. Examples that will be provided shall be selected from the play “Oleanna”, a modern play written by David Mamet.

“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Sexual Rejection ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Feminine Subject ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Feminist Work

On Instagram, the accounts Bye Felipe and Tinder Nightmares feature screen-grabbed messages of sexist abuse and harassment women have received from men on dating apps. This paper presents a discursive analysis of 526 posts from these Instagrams. Utilising a psychosocial and feminist poststructuralist perspective, it examines how harassing messages reproduce certain gendered discourses and (hetero)sexual scripts, and analyses how harassers attempt to position themselves and the feminine subject in interaction. The analysis presents two themes, termed the “not hot enough” discourse and the “missing discourse of consent”, which are unpacked to reveal a patriarchal logic in which a woman's constructed “worth” in the online sexual marketplace resides in her beauty and sexual propriety. Occurring in response to women's exercise of choice and to (real or imagined) sexual rejection, it is argued these are disciplinary discourses that attempt to (re)position women and femininity as sexually subordinate to masculinity and men. This paper makes a novel contribution to a growing body of feminist work on online harassment and misogyny. It also considers the implications for feminist theorising on the link between postfeminism and contemporary forms of sexism, and ends with some reflections on strategies of feminist resistance.

Influence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Induced by Vibratory Actions upon Fingers Mobility

2015 ◽  
Vol 801 ◽  
pp. 284-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Cotoros ◽  
Mihaela Baritz ◽  
Anca Elena Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ◽  
Range Of Motion ◽  
Median Nerve ◽  
Carpal Tunnel ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Arm Swelling ◽  
Tunnel Syndrome ◽  
The Subject

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a kind of neuropathy developed due to irritated tendons that may affect the passageway made of ligaments and bones, located at the wrist (base of palm). People affected by CTS develop symptoms such as pain in the carpal area, sometimes reflected along the entire arm, swelling, difficulties in finger motions, reduced range of motion due to pressure upon the median nerve. The present paper performs a case study upon a female subject affected by CTS. The subject is investigated and then guided to perform some exercises using the software attached to the used equipment (sensory gloves), over a controlled period of time with rehabilitation purposes.

Desire, sanity and the middlebrow aesthetic: The case of Triveni’s Sharapanjara

2019 ◽  
pp. 002198941987848
Author(s):  
Gayathri Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject

Two landmark novels appeared in the same year (1965) in Kannada literature — U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara and Triveni’s last novel, Sharapanjara. While the former got enshrined into the Indian modernist canon (the Navya movement), Triveni’s work has stayed mostly in the realms of popular literature for women. This article seeks to make a case to read Sharapanjara in light of recent scholarship on popular modernism and on the middlebrow novel, especially the feminine middlebrow. Depicting the chilling unspooling of a woman’s mental health, recovery and relapse, within the constraints and duplicities of domestic space, this novel makes several bold thematic and stylistic forays. The article analyses Sharapanjara as a text whose double vision about desire and insanity, both in its treatment of the subject as well as its nuanced narrative structure, elicits new articulations of extreme alienation and discrimination at the very cusp where the domestic and the public collapse into each other.

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