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MILES, M.R., - Carnal Knowing. Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West.
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| Schrijver: | MILES, M.R., |
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| Titel: | Carnal Knowing. Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West. |
| ISBN: | 9780860121824 |
| Uitgever: | Burns & Oates, Tunbridge Wells, 1992. XV,254p. Original hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. |
| Bijzonderheid: | ‘The book clearly illustrates how ‘ambivalence’ correctly describes Christianity’s attitudes toward women, for although women could be seen as countercultural agents in such areas as martyrdom and asceticism, they received a firmly subordi... |
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| Meer info | but unproblematically only for men, whose subjectivity could be readily displayed in the ‘interdependence of body and consciousness’. The myth of Adam and Eve (…) forged the association for the Christian West of female nakedness with sin, sex, and danger (…). Miles gloomily concedes ‘ there is no iconographical tradition in the Christian West that identifies spiritual struggle or the cultivation of a centred religious self with the female body’ (p.144). Yet she holds out the hope that women artists whose work is both public and collective may create an adequate artistic practice for the representation of female subjectivity. Miles (…) adopts a modified Foucauldian approach, claiming that the ‘productive’ (not just ‘reflective’) nature of such representations of women encourages both sexes to conform willingly to societal regulation - yet faults Foucault (and others) who do not adequately attend to the real-life oppression of women. Her argument throughout is solidly and refreshingly feminist. (…) This book presents a sustained argument for yet another way in which Christianity in practice betrayed its central confession.’ (ELIZABETH A. CLARK in Church History, 1993, pp.314-315). |
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