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Maps of flesh and light : the religious experience of medieval women mystics
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ISBN: 0815626118 Year: 1993 Publisher: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press,


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Sensible ecstasy: mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history
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ISBN: 0226349527 0226349519 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism.What is particular to these thinkers, Hollywood reveals, is their attention to forms of mysticism associated with women. They reg

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