Luce Irigray's Zaharoff lecture is part of an intellectual adventure begun with Speculum. De L'autre femme (1974) and continued in Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un (1977) and Ethique de al difference sexuelle (1984). The present volume not only contains the text of Le Partage de la parole itself but also reprints two earlier essays that bear upon the same topic. Irigaray is a feminist philospher whose work has always had a practical dimension. In this collection, her arguments are underpinned by empirical research on the language of schoolchildren and should have wide implications not only for a...