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Hidden Subjects: Rereading Eve and Mary

d.sawyer{at}lancaster.ac.uk

Eve and Mary are two archetypes that persist within our culture at its most profound level despite world views imposed by Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought. Since these figures are impossible to expel from our imaginations, revisiting them in the light of contemporary ideas of identity and gender might prove to be a useful means of understanding their cultural impact. In this article extracts from the work of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva are discussed which feature our two archetypes, framing them through the lens of gender critique. Their work clearly illuminates the status of these figures within our realities, and drawing on their observations, suggestions are made as to how we might re-figure both Eve and Mary as the true subjects of the foundation narratives they inhabit.

Key Words: Eve • Mary • Bible • Cixous • Irigaray • Kristeva

Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 14, No. 3, 305-320 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1355835808091422


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