IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 808: Lesbian Studies and the Premodern: At the Intersections, IV - Religious Devotions
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Noreen Giffney, Women's Studies, University College Dublin Diane Watt, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Noreen Giffney, Women's Studies, University College Dublin |
Paper 808-a | Towards a Homoerotics of Female Monastic Community (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality |
Paper 808-b | Re-Reading Irish Early Christian Female Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Sexuality |
Abstract | This is the fourth of 4 linked sessions plus a round table dealing with the topic 'Lesbian Studies and the Premodern: at the Intersections'. This session is specifically concerned with issues of 'lesbian discourse' in religious writings, including letters, mystical texts and saints' lives and with the specific theoretical problems posed by these texts. |