Divine Love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender and Religion

This is the first full-length book on the market to explore the religious and spiritual elements of Luce Irigaray’s thought. This book: presents Irigaray’s ideas on love, the divine, an ethics of sexual difference, and (normative) heterosexuality, in detailed studies that are not available elsewhere; contextualises her work in terms of its reception by secular feminists and feminists within Religious Studies; and, discusses Irigaray’s own spiritual path which has been influenced by eastern religions - specifically the disciplines of yoga and tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism. It surveys Irigaray’s own interactions with certain philosophers, e.g., Descartes and Hegel, Levinas from a religious perspective, in ways that have not been undertaken elsewhere. Compares Irigaray’s work with that of the radical feminist, Mary Daly, where there are both striking similarities as well as major differences.