19 When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
24 If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
25 When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.
26 Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean as during her period. 27 Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
28 When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
29 On the eighth day she must take two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
30 The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness s of her discharge.
Thanks bible.
Good to know that my body is particularly sinful, contaminating and unclean.
Happy easter! Time for some chocolate now.
Went to a series of lectures about Luce Irigaray today at VCA. I'm about halfway through reading This Sex Which is Not One so it was interesting to get a variety of perspectives on her writing.
In the book Irigaray discusses the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. Freud's essays on female sexual development are analyzed and critiqued in a fair amount of detail.
"Freud falls back on the affirmation that the libido is necessarily male, and maintains that there is in fact only one libido, but that in the case of femininity it may put itself in the service of "passive aims. P.58"
Irigaray also talks about psychoanalysts who have offered alternatives to Freud's theorization of penis envy in infant girls; such as Melanie Klien, who discussed 'penis envy' as "a secondary reaction formation compensating for the difficulty that the girl, the woman experiences in sustaining her own desire. P.52"
One of the lectures was an artist's talk by Kate Just whose work seemed very related to Irigaray's writing and concerned with interiority and space and the female body. the work Just showed was entitled Inward Gathering and was an installation of three components. The first was a series of oversized keys modeled in shiny black clay with various symbols inscribed upon them. Each key is representative of a person significant to the artist. (the one below is the artist as she perceives herself)


On a mirrored oval on the floor of the room sit several glass flasks filled with water; all rounded shapes with teetering, precarious spouts. They looked scientific, but are clustered together in an intimate way.

On the wall opposite the keys are a number of perspex boxes which contain collages of strange instruments designed to probe the body; endoscopes, butt plugs, scalpels, what look like medical and dental instruments... all concerned with probing, slicing and entering the body

Here's a few of Kate Just's knitted sculptures. They look amazing.


I'm definitely going to Kate Just's next show, which will be:
SOLO:
Unearthed
Craft Victoria
28 April - 11 June 2011
Opening Night: Thursday 28 April, 6-8pm
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