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Becoming the goddess: female subjectivity and the passion of the Goddess Radha
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While women in every culture have learned to identify with male heroes in forming their own subjectivity as rational feeling and flourishing agents, India has a long history of men identifying with female spiritual exemplars. Here we address Zizek or Kristeva's call for a "strong self" grounding ethical and spiritual commitment across genders, by asking what kind of subjectivity can inspire such transformative empathy able to attract a range of selves across gendered and social divides to "be...
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+ Anderson, P
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University of Oxford
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Regent's Park College
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- Volume:
- 2
- Pages:
- 199-215
- Host title:
- New topics in feminist philosophy of religion: contestations and transcendence incarnate
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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- 9781402068331
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2010-12-17
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- The full-text of this book chapter is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to acecss it via the publisher copy link on this page. Citation: Frazier, J. (2010). Becoming the goddess: female subjectivity and the passion of the Goddess Radha. In: Anderson, P.S. (ed.) New topics in feminist philosophy of religion: contestations and transcendence incarnate, Part 2. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 199-215.
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