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Women mystics confront the modern world : Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

Author: Marie-Florine Bruneau
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Series: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Marie de l'Incarnation, mère; Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon; Jeanne Marie Guyon; Marie de l'Incarnation, mère; Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon; Mère) Marie (de l'Incarnation; Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon; Marie de l'Incarnation, (ursuline ;; Jeanne-Marie Guyon
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marie-Florine Bruneau
ISBN: 0791436616 9780791436615 0791436624 9780791436622
OCLC Number: 36900852
Description: x, 279 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Female Mysticism: A Historical Perspective --
Marie de l'Incarnation --
The Female Mystical Body in Transition: From the Rhetoric of Suffering to the Rhetoric of Health --
From France to Canada/From Motherhood to Subjecthood: Mystical Writing as Distancing --
The Double Bind--The Invisible Historical Subject as Historiographer --
The Confrontation between "Civilized" and "Savage" Femininity in the New World --
Madame Guyon --
A Figure of Transition: Madame Guyon between the Female Mystical Tradition and the Emergence of a New Era --
The Quarrel of Quietism and the Construction of Modern Femininity --
Guyon's Autobiography at the Crossroads of History.
Series Title: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Responsibility: Marie-Florine Bruneau.

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