RT Article
T1 Michèle Roberts's Protagonists: Catholicism and Sexuality
JF Feminist theology
VO 17
IS 2
SP 229
OP 244
A1 García Sánchez, M. Soraya
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776894715
AB Women have been marginalized in different contexts and situations. Religion, and to be more specific Catholicism, is a tradition that has divided men and women but more importantly women themselves as they represent the dichotomy of good and evil. Michèle Roberts's heroines are inspired through biblical characters who will replace the binary system of being for dualities and pluralities in the same woman as part of their identities. This paper considers the feminist procedure of Adrienne Rich's re-visioning, re-imagining and re-writing, Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection plus a touch of Bakhtinian `open bodies' in the light of Catholic myths. The conclusion of this essay aims to present and celebrate Roberts's heroines in relation to their sexuality and religion.
K1 Women
K1 Sexuality
K1 re-writing
K1 Multiplicity
K1 dichotomy
K1 Catholicism
DO 10.1177/0966735008098725