French Feminists on Religion: A Reader
Edited by Morny Joy, Kathleen O’Grady and Judith L. Poxon
With a Foreword by Catherine Clément
Routledge Press, 2003 (www.routledge.co.uk)
                                                                                                   
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French Feminists on Religion: A Reader offers the first representative selection of
important writings by French feminist thinkers on the topic of religion, including the
most influential and provocative texts on the subject from Luce Irigaray, Julia
Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig and Catherine Clément.  Each thinker is
introduced by a bibliographical preface, while individual essays are preceded by an
editorial commentary explaining the context and significance of each piece for the
study of religion.

The collected texts cover a broad range of religious practices and discourses
focusing primarily on Jewish and Christian concerns, but including elements of
ancient goddess traditions, witchcraft, Hinduism and Buddhism.  Critically examined
themes include:

*Jewish and Christian notions of sin, defilement, purity and redemption;
*The relationship between subjectivity and divinity, as conceived in the feminine;
*The feminist re-imagining of the Virgin Mary, and of Catholic theologies of love;
*The repression of the maternal in Judeo-Christian culture

Brought together for the first time in French Feminists on Religion: A Reader, these
essays demonstrate the central importance of French feminism for the study of
religion, and at the same time make evident the significance of religious themes,
figures and concepts to the work of French feminists.

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