Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth

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dc.contributor.advisorChidester, Daviden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorTobler, Judithen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-14T18:10:06Z
dc.date.available2015-09-14T18:10:06Z
dc.date.issued1997en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 333-354.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis engages a multi-disciplinary theoretical approach to identifying, analysing, and interpreting discourse relating to the feminine and the maternal found at the intersection of psychoanalysis, feminism, and religion. The study explores embodiment, gender, and the sacred as expressed in symbolic representations of the mother and the institution of motherhood in patriarchy. I have therefore drawn on Freudian and post-Freudian theories, gender analysis, feminist critical analysis, and classical Hindu goddess myth to discern ways in which sacred images of the mother serve to reinforce the oppression of women on the one hand and can be transformed to provide empowering symbols for women's lived reality on the other. Theory of sacred space is also employed, particularly with regard to the human production of the sacred through the contested politics of sacred space.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationTobler, J. (1997). <i>Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13910en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationTobler, Judith. <i>"Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13910en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTobler, J. 1997. Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Tobler, Judith AB - This thesis engages a multi-disciplinary theoretical approach to identifying, analysing, and interpreting discourse relating to the feminine and the maternal found at the intersection of psychoanalysis, feminism, and religion. The study explores embodiment, gender, and the sacred as expressed in symbolic representations of the mother and the institution of motherhood in patriarchy. I have therefore drawn on Freudian and post-Freudian theories, gender analysis, feminist critical analysis, and classical Hindu goddess myth to discern ways in which sacred images of the mother serve to reinforce the oppression of women on the one hand and can be transformed to provide empowering symbols for women's lived reality on the other. Theory of sacred space is also employed, particularly with regard to the human production of the sacred through the contested politics of sacred space. DA - 1997 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1997 T1 - Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth TI - Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13910 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13910
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationTobler J. Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1997 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13910en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherReligious Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleGendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu mythen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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