| Author/Contributor(s): | Stockton, Kathryn Bond |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Date: | 08/01/1994 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.