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The Return of the Goddess

In: Women and the Divine

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  • Beverly Metcalfe

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This chapter is concerned with becoming, specifically feminine becoming. By “becoming,” I mean towards a state of transcendence beyond dominant masculinist knowledge, allowing all human beings to take their place as embodied living subjects in their own right, and without recourse to dualistic constructions of sex/gender. Drawing on the poststructuralist writings of Irigaray and the Divine, and feminist scholars I show how a rereading of feminine wisdom and leadership can help us move towards a location of transcendence, and to become sexed subjectivities. The investigation of feminine becoming will not draw on contemporary female leaders, but heroines in the tales of human morality and spirituality contained within the Hebrew Bible. Focusing specifically on Deborah in the Book of Judges, one of the earliest recorded female leaders, the aim is to contribute to a process of reimagining new readings of ancient leadership knowledges so as to further advance leadership theorizing by inscribing a feminine logic.

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  • Beverly Metcalfe, 2009. "The Return of the Goddess," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gillian Howie & J’annine Jobling (ed.), Women and the Divine, chapter 0, pages 127-152, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-12074-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-12074-8_7
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