God Between Their Lips
Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot

Kathryn Bond Stockton (Author)

9780804723121

Hardback, published 1 August 1994

300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.585 kg

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."