{"product_id":"sacrificed-lives-kristeva-on-women-and-violence-9780253211286","title":"Sacrificed Lives  Kristeva on Women and Violence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUses the work of Julia Kristeva as a touchstone to explore the nature of violence against women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. Framing the Problem of Violence\u003cbr\u003e II. Kristeva's Psychoanalytic Theory: A Helpful Resource for Feminists?\u003cbr\u003e III. An Outline of Life-Sentences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Kristeva in Context: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. The Lacanian Context: Human Existence as a Practice of Absence\u003cbr\u003e II. The Lacanian Context Subverted: Kristeva's Theory of the Unconscious\u003cbr\u003e III. The Lacanian Context Enfleshed: Kristeva's Theory of Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e IV. A Critical Context: Kristeva and Feminist Theory\u003cbr\u003e A. Kristeva and Social Constructionism\u003cbr\u003e B. Kristeva and a Libidinal Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Death-Work and Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. Drive Theory and Human Agency\u003cbr\u003e II. Drive Theory and the Maternal Body\u003cbr\u003e III. Drive Theory and the Fort\/Da Game\u003cbr\u003e IV. Drive Theory, Laughter, and the Sign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 In Search of the Mother in Mimesis: From Death-Work to Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. From Heterogeneity to the Symbolic Order\u003cbr\u003e II. An Orderly Death: Sacrifice and the Symbolic\u003cbr\u003e III. RenÇ Girard: Mimesis and Murder\u003cbr\u003e A. Mimetic Desire\u003cbr\u003e B. Surrogate Victimization\u003cbr\u003e C. Ritual and Myth\u003cbr\u003e IV. Kristeva: Mimesis, Mother, and Murder\u003cbr\u003e A. Mimetic Desire\u003cbr\u003e B. Victimization and Sexual Difference\u003cbr\u003e C. Coding Matricide: Abjection, Defilement, Ritual Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e V. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 'This Is My Body:' Abjection, Anorexia, and Medieval Women Mystics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. Drawing the Line Somewhere: The Construction of Social Order\u003cbr\u003e A. Eating Order: Food and the Social Body\u003cbr\u003e B. Out of Order: Women and the Social Body\u003cbr\u003e II. Holy Women, Holy Food, and Holy Order\u003cbr\u003e III. Crossing the Line: Abjection and the Abyss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 'The Devils Are Come Down Upon Us:' The Witch as Scapegoat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. The Witch in Historical Perspective\u003cbr\u003e II. The Witch as Scapegoat\u003cbr\u003e III. The Witch in Mythic Perspective\u003cbr\u003e IV. Witch Hunts and the Work of a Sacrificial Economy\u003cbr\u003e A. The Truth of Torture\u003cbr\u003e B. The Truth of Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Life-Sentences: The Mother in the Cultural Archives of the West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I. Time's Truth\u003cbr\u003e II. Femme Enceinte: Pregnant Body-Politics\u003cbr\u003e III. The Scapegoat Among Us and the Stranger Within\u003cbr\u003e A. Analysis as a Practice of Strangeness\u003cbr\u003e B. From Fascinated Rejection to Familiar Strangeness\u003cbr\u003e C. A Cautionary Tale of Hoffmann\u003cbr\u003e IV. In Quest of a Strange Politics: Religion, Feminism, Elsewhere?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515389010263,"sku":"9780253211286","price":14.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sacrificed-lives-kristeva-on-women-and-violence-9780253211286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}