Contents 6
Contributors 8
Introduction 10
Acknowledgements 13
Bibliography 13
Part I Contestations: Concepts and Practices 14
1 Feminists and Fools: Imagination and Philosophy of Religion 15
Introduction 15
Two Feminist Philosophies of Religion: Imagination in Jantzen and Anderson 17
Imagination and Philosophy of Religion 23
Coda 26
Bibliography 26
2 Rethinking the Problem of Evil with Hannah Arendt and Grace Jantzen 29
Introduction 29
The Problem of Evil 13
Hannah Arendt on Evil and Natality 13
Jantzens Adaptation of Arendt 35
Women, Violence, and Evil 37
Philosophy of Religion, Women, and the Problem of Evil 40
Conclusion 42
Bibliography 43
3 Horizons and Limitations of Muslim Feminist Hermeneutics: Reflections on the Menstruation Verse 45
I 45
II 48
Contextual Themes 49
Exegetical Problems 49
III 55
Bibliography 60
4 Is Unconditional Forgiveness Ever Good? 62
Introduction 62
Unconditional Forgiveness: A Christian View 64
Emotions of Justice, Outlaw Emotions and Feminist Ethics 68
The Need for Forgiveness: A Feminist Secular Argument 72
Beyond Conflict: The Emotional Dialectics of Resentment and Forgiveness 74
Endorsing Forgiveness 76
Bibliography 78
5 Simone Weils Social Philosophy: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethic 80
Introduction 81
Uprooting 82
A Marxist Method of Social Analysis 83
Mapping French Society: An Ideology of Progress 87
Conclusion: Risking Good 90
Bibliography 93
6 Bargaining with Spiritual Patriarchy: Women in the Shas Movement in Israel 95
Methodological Comments 96
The Social and Political Context of the Gender Relations 97
Development of Bargaining Strategies 101
Blurring the Boundaries Strategy 101
Bargaining with the Spiritual Leadership 105
Concluding Remarks 109
Bibliography 110
7 Temptress on the Path: Women as Objects and Subjects in Buddhist Jtaka Stories 112
Introduction 112
Ascetic Misogyny 114
Institutional Androcentrism 116
Soteriological Inclusiveness? 118
Conclusion 121
Bibliography 122
8 Is Literature Any Help in Liberating Eve and Mary? 125
Bibliography 133
9 The Abandoned Fiance, or Against Subjection 135
Introduction 135
The Friend, the Slave and the Lover 136
Ethics of Kenosis 138
From Barth to Coakley 138
Ward's Kenotic Anthropology 140
An Initial Response 143
Kierkegaards Abandoned Fiance 144
The Role of the Fianc茅e 145
Fairytale Ethics 149
Bibliography 151
10 Kant and the Present 154
Bibliography 166
Part II Transcendence Incarnate: Space, Self and Other 168
11 The Lived Body, Gender and Confidence 169
Setting the Scene: A Phenomenological Description 169
Critical Questions: Kants Philosophical Influence 173
Transcendental Philosophy, the Lived Body and Confidence 176
The Gender of Confidence: Eves Awakening 178
Confidence and Its Lack: The \u201cI Cannot\u201d of Epistemic Injustice 181
Conclusion 183
Bibliography 185
12 In Defence of Female Genius: Maude Royden and Passionate Celibacy 187
In the Beginning 187
Julia Kristeva on Female Genius 189
Maude Royden (1876-1956) 193
Sex and Commonsense 194
Maude Royden and Passionate Celibacy 196
Conclusion 200
Bibliography 201
13 Becoming the Goddess: Female Subjectivity and the Passion of the Goddess Radha 204
Feminist Philosophy and Finding Ones Self 204
Contemporary Feminist Philosophy 206
Incarnational Metaphysics and Devotional Attention in Hinduism 208
The Narrative Goddess 210
The Universality of the Exemplary Subject 211
Radhas Passionate Rationality 214
Becoming the Goddess 215
Passionate Selfhood 217
Empathetic Ethics and Feminist Semiotics 218
Bibliography 219
14 Bodies in Space: Transcendence and the Spatialization of Gender 221
Gendered Incarnate Transcendence 223
The Spatialization of the Gendered Body 226
The Spirituality of Transcendence 230
Spirituality and Corporeality in the Space of Transcendence 233
Conclusion and a Reformulation of the Issue of the Neutrality of Incarnate Transcendence 234
Bibliography 236
15 The Unfolding of Our Lives with Others: Heidegger and Medieval Mysticism 238
Which Bits of Heidegger are Useful for Feminists and in What Way? 238
Contexts of Shared Activity 241
Sharing Our Moods 243
Overcoming Attachments Then and Now 246
Bibliography 250
16 Beauvoir and the Transcendence of Natality 252
Transcendence and The Ethics 253
Transcendence and The Second Sex 255
Transcendence and Natality 258
Bibliography 262
17 The Body as Site of Continuity and Change 263
The Body: Ambiguous Catalyst for Change 263
The Body as Resistance to Transcendence 265
The Body as the Focus for Change 271
A Theological Coda 276
Bibliography 277
18 The Problem of Transcendence in Irigarays Philosophy of Sexual Difference 280
Introduction 280
Materializing the Transcendental 282
Irigarays Philosophy of Nature: Two Sexuate Rhythms 285
Becoming Divine: Towards a Different Transcendence 287
A Horizontal Transcendence 288
A Vertical Transcendence 290
Sexual Difference and Transcendence: The Problem 292
Conclusion 295
Bibliography 296
19 An Ethics of the In-Between: A Condition of Possibility of Being and Living Together 298
Introduction 298
An Ethics of the In-Between 301
The Transcendence of the Other 301
Belonging to a Gender: A Limit to the I 303
Creating an In-Between in the Encounter of the Other 305
The Passion of Wonder 307
An Ethics of the In-Between in the Collective of Women 308
The Rivalry Between Women 309
A ''God'' in the Feminine 311
Multiple Belongings 313
The Ethics of the In-Between: An Indelible Part of the Horizon of Meaning 316
Bibliography 317
20 Creating a Space for Practical Wisdom: The Dance of Transcendence Incarnate 320
Women as Knowers 321
Women Imagining the Possible 323
Women as Agents of Change 325
Dance as a Metaphor for Womens Wisdom 327
Bibliography 328
Index 330