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DR Sian Hawthorne's Outputs (6)

Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality (2013)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2013). Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality. Religion and Gender, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-00302002

This paper examines the uneasy intersection between ‘religion’, ‘gender’ and ‘postcoloniality’ as it is staged in the field of religion and gender. Noting the lack of sustained attention in the field to those postcolonial challenges that might questi... Read More about Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality.

An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater' (2013)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2013). An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'. Culture and dialogue, 3(1), 127-151. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683949-00301010

In this essay I examine Julia Kristeva’s transgressive body of work as a strategic embodiment of, and argument for, an ethical orientation towards otherness predicated on the image of divided subjectivity identified by Jacques Lacan but powerfully re... Read More about An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'.

Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity (2013)
Book Chapter
Hawthorne, S. (2013). Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity. In M. Evans, C. Hemmings, M. Henry, H. Johnstone, S. Madhok, & S. Wearing (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory. Sage Publishers

This chapter explores the relationship between feminism and religion, asking why religious difference is rarely included in the set of intersectional identities recognised by feminism as sites of valued political articulation. The early influence of... Read More about Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity.