The Feminine and the Sacred
In November 1996, Catherine Clement and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Clement, writing from Dakar, Senegal, approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view and Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and fundamental question: Is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine? The two voices...
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In November 1996, Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. Their correspondence lead them to a controversial and fundamental question: is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine?Although their discourse is not necessarily about theology, Clément and Kristeva consider the role of women and femininity in the religions of the world, from Christianity and Judaism to Confucianism and African animism.BooknewsTwo great French thinkers ponder whether a specifically feminine form of the sacred exists. They write about women's experience with beliefan experience, they argue, that women feel with particular intensity"at the crossroads of sexuality and thought, body and meaning." Their book takes the form of correspondence as they consider the role of women and femininity in the world's religions. Kristeva, in Paris, takes the psychoanalyst's view and Cl
\ BooknewsTwo great French thinkers ponder whether a specifically feminine form of the sacred exists. They write about women's experience with belief<-->an experience, they argue, that women feel with particular intensity<-->"at the crossroads of sexuality and thought, body and meaning." Their book takes the form of correspondence as they consider the role of women and femininity in the world's religions. Kristeva, in Paris, takes the psychoanalyst's view and Cl<'e>ment, based in Senegal, writes from the perspective of anthropology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ \ \ The New York TimesA lively exchange of letters.... ranges widely over the place of women in monotheistic, traditional, and animistic religions.\ — Alan Riding\ \ \ \ Le MondeWise and passionate.... [Clément and Kristeva's] mutual confidence makes them reveal each other with a fascinating percision.\ \ \ \ \ \ The New York TimesA lively exchange of letters.... ranges widely over the place of women in monotheistic, traditional, and animistic religions.\ \ \
