God Between Their Lips Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Bront}}, and Eliot [Hardcover]

This book explores desire between women as a form of spiritual materialism in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Bront?, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, spiritual materialism : the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialitiesa sob in the body or the body itselfhas 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. Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bront?'sVilletteand George Eliot'sMiddlemarch)to understand desire between women as a form of spiritual materialism.