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Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Mystical
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
By reading the analyses of mysticism found in Beauvoir and Irigaray with and against some medieval women's mystical texts, the paper articulates a possible space for the divine within feminist thought.
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- Embodying Subjectivities
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- Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion , Fall 1994 , pp. 158 - 185
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- Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.
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