Abstract:

In popular understandings, both excess and conflict are understood as compelling, even ‘sexy’. Drawing from the perspectives of feminist theory, history and theology, I consider the ways that patriarchal cultures eroticize possession, domination and taboo violation, leading to this popular apprehension. I critique some of the ways that patriarchal conceptions of sex and God, both founded in a gendered conception of power as domination, intersect to significantly influence and foment harms including environmental devastation.

Author: Jane Caputi