Redeeming Sexual Difference: Stigmata, The Messenger and Luce Irigaray's Bleeding Woman

The 1999 film Stigmata foregrounds the difficulties and hazards involved in representing a woman as a Christ figure, and the necessity of imagining new ways of understanding gendered identity within Christianity. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) similarly confronts the female body in a...

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Main Author: Ugrina, Luciana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2009]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2009, Volume: 21, Issue: 1
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