According to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in
specific ways, most radically through their association with
maternity. Drawing on the work of two feminist philosophers, Luce
Irigaray and Michelle Boulous Walker, she argues that we may
discern two principal strategies of silencing women in Chronicles
such as: disavowal and repression of the maternal body. In its
simplest form, the silencing of women takes place through both an
explicit and implicit strategy of excluding them from the central
action. Largely banished from the central action, they are hardly
able to contribute to the production of Israel's past. On a more
complex level, however, women are most effectively silenced through
their association with maternity, because the maternal body is both
disavowed and repressed in Chronicles. The association of women
with maternity, along with the disavowal and repression of the
maternal body as origin of the masculine subject, effects and
guarantees the silence of the feminine, enabling man to imagine
himself as sole producer of his world. These strategies of
silencing the feminine need to be understood in relation to the
relative absence of women from the narrative world of Chronicles.
Kelso argues that Chronicles depends on the absence and silence of
women for its imaginary coherence. This argument is enabled by
Irigarayan theory. But more importantly, Kelso suggests that
Irigaray also offers us a viable mode (not method) of reading,
writing, listening, and speaking as woman (whatever that might
mean), in relation to the so-called origins of western culture,
specifically the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. She argues that
Irigaray enables a not only rigorous, feminist critique of
patriarchy and its many texts, but also, somewhat more charitably,
a mode of reading that enables women to read the past differently,
seeking out 'what remains to be discovered, especially the
forgotten future in the past.'
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