Christine Downing

Women’s Mysteries

Toward a Poetics of Gender

237 pages, ISBN 1-88267-099-X / 978-1-88267-099-4, Spring Publications

“For the last thirty years of so, we have been richly endowed with articulate explorations of the sociology of gender, critical theory about gender, philosophies and theologies of gender, and – both from the right and from the left – politics of gender. What we have needed is a poetics of gender, a work that stresses the process of the continual creation and alteration of gender identity. This is that work!”