Sacred and the Feminine Imagination and Sexual Difference

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Series Editor: Griselda Pollock This timely new series, with eminent art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock as series editor, brings together major international commentators and also introduces a new generation of emerging scholars. Resisting both the rejection of theory and the current displacement of art history in favour of visual culture, New Encounters instead rejuvenate both approaches. Marked out by its critical engagement with and close informed readings of images, texts and cultural events, this series employs new feminist, postcolonial and queer perspectives. New Encounters also showcases exciting new volumes which revisit key figures in twentieth century art through highly original feminist approaches. ---- The notion of a special intimacy between "the feminine and the sacred" has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement's famous ecumenical "conversation" of the same name. Taking up the debate and moving beyond anthropology or theology, writers from varied ethnic, geo-cultural and religious perspectives here join with secular cultural analysts to explore the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies.Pollock, Griselda is the author of 'Sacred and the Feminine Imagination and Sexual Difference', published 2007 under ISBN 9781845115203 and ISBN 1845115201.