Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine

ISBN-13: 9780415059695 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 252 str.

Margaret Whitford

Opis

No radical feminist thinker has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Luce Irigaray. Her claim that Western reason is premised on the suppression of sexual difference, her engagement with Lacanian and Derridean theory, and her apparent essentialist conception of the feminine all challenge and disturb in equal measure. Margaret Whitford's study provides an introduction to Irigaray's whole corpus, including previously untranslated French texts. Treating Irigaray as a philosopher of sexual difference, Whitford suggests that her work should be seen as philosophy in the feminine, actively opposing the complicity of philosophy with other social practices which exclude or marginalize women.

Recenzje

`Margaret Whitford's exploration of Luce Irigaray's work represents a landmark in the study of contemporary French thought. Lucid, rigorous and consistently assessible... Essential reading for students of French thought.' - Modern and Contemporary France

Spis treści

Introduction Introductory remarks; Chapter 1 Feminism and Utopia; Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 Subjectivity and language; Chapter 3 Rationality and the imaginary; Chapter 4 Maternal genealogy and the symbolic; Philosophy; Chapter 5 The same, the semblance, and the other; Chapter 6 Identity and violence; Chapter 7 Ethics, sexuality, and embodiment; Chapter 8 Women and/in the social contract;

O autorze

Margaret Whitford