O Mother, Where Art Thou? : An Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Question of Silence -- 1. "All Israel" and the "Inclusive Ideology of Identity" in Chronicles -- Part I Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Hebrew Bible: "Introducing" Luce Irigaray -- Chapter 1 "The Monopoly of the Origin" and the Mute Foundation of Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Luce Irigaray -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Specularization of Woman-Mother in Philosophy -- 3. The Lacanian Universe -- 4. Psychoanalysis, the Economy of the Same, and the Monopoly of the Origin -- 5. The Murder of the Mother and the Forgetting of Female Ancestries -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Remembering the Forgotten Mother: Engaging with Chronicles in an Irigarayan Mode -- 1. Introduction: The Task of Analysis -- 2. Method or Mode? An "Era of Knowledge Already Over" or "the Era of the Spirit and the Bride? -- 3. The Praticable as Nuptial Tool -- 3.1. The Embodied Geography of Analysis -- 3.2. The Rule of Free Association and the Mode of Listening Required -- 3.3. The Rule of Transference -- 4. Reading Silence -- 5. Speaking Silence Poetically -- 6. Conclusion: Going into Analysis "as Woman" with the Book of Chronicles -- Part II Our Production of a Past, in the Present of Analaysis: Engaging with the Book of Chronicles -- Chapter 3 Who Begets Whom? Disavowing the Maternal Body: 1 Chronicles 1-9 -- 1. According to You (I)… Shall We Begin at a Beginning? -- 2. Birth Pangs? -- 3. An Intriguing Inclusion on your Part -- 4. From Edom to Israel, a Sharp Turn? -- 5. A Smooth Production Line -- 6. The Cracks Are Starting to Show -- 7. Father → Son? -- 8. The Passive of David -- 9. Discontinuity -- 10. Summary Analysis -- 10.1. Grammatical and/or Syntactical Breakdowns -- 10.2. Contradictions -- 10.3. A Breakdown of Realism.

11. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Debt-Free Masculine Subject: The Repressed Maternal Body in 1 Chronicles 10-2 Chronicles 36 -- 1. According to You (II)… Shall We Begin Again? -- 2. Ideal Israel Born of Man -- 3. A Body in Bits and Pieces: The Murder of the (M)other? -- 4. From Father to Son, a Blessed Machine -- 5. Double-Sexing Sacred Space: The Temple in Chronicles -- 6. "Silencing" the Father? -- 7. Return of the Repressed: The Three Diseased Kings of Chronicles -- 8. The Problematic Representation of the Mother -- 8.1. The Mother's Murderous Words (2 Chronicles 22:10) -- 8.2. "A Horrid Thing," a "Thing to Shudder at" (2 Chronicles 15:16) -- 9. Conclusion -- 9.1. Figuring Sexual Difference? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.

According to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity.

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