Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface: New Encounters - Griselda Pollock -- Editors' Introduction - Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey Sauron -- 1. Sacred Cows: Wandering in Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Anthropology - Griselda Pollock -- 2. The Priestess of Athena Grows a Beard: Latent Citizenship in Ancient Greek Women's Ritual - Barbara Goff -- 3. The Sacred, the Feminine and French Feminist Theory - Daphne Hampson -- 4. The Feminine, the Sacred and the Shared: The Ecumenical Space of the Sufi Dargah - Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- 5. The Sacred and the Feminine: An Africa Response to Clement and Kristeva - Molara Ogundipe -- 6. The Becoming-Woman of the East/West Conflict: The Western Sacralization of Life and the Feminine Politics of Death - Maria Margaroni -- 7. Enunciating the Christian Dieue and Obscuring the Other: A Quebec Perspective - Denise Couture -- 8. Sringara Rasa: The Feminist Call of the Spiritual/Erotic Impulse in Indian Art - Ranjana Thapalyal -- 9. Stabat Mater - A Nameless Place: Film, the Feminine and the Sacred - Nina Danino -- 10. Kathleen Raine: Poetry and Myth as Constructions of the Sacred and the Secret - Celine Boyer -- 11. Paula Rego's (Her)ethical Visions - Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira -- Untitled -- 12. From Leda to Daphne: Sacrifice and Virginity in the Work of Ana Mendieta - Anne Creissels -- 13. Inside-Out: Sculpting Sacred Space in Bernini and Bourgeois - Victoria Turvey Sauron -- 14. The Word Made Flesh: Re-embodying the Madonna and Child in Helen Chadwick's 'One Flesh' - Leila McKellar -- 15. Something to Show for It? Notes on Creativity and Termination in the Work of Tracey Emin - Vanessa Corby -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.