O Mother, Where Art Thou? by Julie Kelso - 9781845533236

Taylor & Francis

O Mother, Where Art Thou?An Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles\nAuthor(s): Julie Kelso\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781845533236, 978-1845533236\nSynopsis\nAccording to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity. Drawing on the work of two feminist philosophers, Luce Irigaray and Michelle Boulous Walker, she argues that we may discern two principal strategies of silencing women in Chronicles: disavowal and repression of the maternal body. In its simplest form, the silencing of women takes place through both an explicit and implicit strategy of excluding them from the central action. Largely banished from the central action, they are hardly able to contribute to the production of Israel s past. On a more complex level, however, women are most effectively silenced through their association with maternity, because the.