Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index
Sacred cows : wandering in feminism, psychoanalysis and anthropology / Griselda Pollock -- The priestess of Athena grows a beard : latent citizenship in ancient Greek women's ritual practice / Barbara Goff -- The sacred, the feminine and French feminist theory / Daphne Hampson -- The feminine, the sacred and the shared : the ecumenical space of the Sufi Dargah / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- The sacred and the feminine : an African response to Clement and Kristeva / Molara Ogundipe -- The becoming-woman of the East/West conflict : the western sacralization of life and the feminine politics of death / Maria Margaroni -- Enunciating the Christian Dieue and Obscuring the other : a Quebec perspective / Denise Couture -- Sringara Rasa : the feminist call of the spiritual/erotic impulse in Indian art / Ranjana Thapalyal -- Stabat Mater--a nameless place : film, the feminine and the sacred / Nina Danino -- Kathleen Raine : poetry and myth as constructions of the sacred and the secret / Celine Boyer -- Paula Rego's (her)ethincal visions / Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira -- From Leda to Daphne : sacrifice and virginity in the work of Ana Mendieta / Anne Creissels -- Inside-out : sculpting sacred space in Bernini and Bourgeois / Victoria Turvey Sauron -- The word made flesh : re-embodying the Madonna and child in Helen Chadwick's One Flesh / Leila McKellar -- Something to show for it? : notes on creativity and termination in the work of Tracey Emin / Vanessa Corby