God Between Their LipsThis book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Bront, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism": the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialitiesa sob in the body or the body itselfhas so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter on its own terms, and material relations that