Abstract

In Liturgy ofthe Body, Bertrand appropriates for womenfamiliar images and symbols which are usually used in connection with men. She also turns the liturgy into ahighly sexually-charged discourse, adiscourse which conflicts with that ofthe Catholic liturgy. Bertrand's woman subject is still in the position ofsacrificed, but instead offocussing on the word at aspiritual level, as in traditional liturgy, she yokes the word to the body, to that which is gendered 'feminine in the discourses of Catholicism. The liturgy becomes one ofwomen's bodily experiences.

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