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The Irigaray Reader Margaret Whitford (University of London)

The Irigaray Reader By Margaret Whitford (University of London)

The Irigaray Reader by Margaret Whitford (University of London)


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Provides an overview of Irgaray's work, while each of the three sections in this work is prefaced by contextualising comments, enabling the reader to situate the extracts both within Iragara's thought and also within feminist theory.

The Irigaray Reader Summary

The Irigaray Reader: Luce Irigaray by Margaret Whitford (University of London)

Luce Irigaray is one of the leading French feminist philosophers and psychoanalysts. The Irigaray Reader is a collection of her most important paeprs to date, ranging across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics. A number of them appear here for the first time in English.

The Irigaray Reader Reviews

A magnificent sample of the best and the boldest of Irigaray's writings and the projects she calls for and calls forth. An excellent text for both introductory and advanced work on Irigaray. Choice

Essential reading for those who seek a genuine understanding of the breadth and radicalism of her oeuvre. The Modern Language Review

About Margaret Whitford (University of London)

Margaret Whitford is also the editor of Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (1991).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Glossary..

Section I: The critique of Patriarchy.

Introduction to Section I.

1. Equal or different.

2. The bodily encounter wit the mother.

3. Women-mothers, the silent substratum of the social order.

4. Volume without contours..

Section II: Psychoanalysis and language.

Introduction to section II.

5. The poverty of psychoanalysis.

6. the limit of the transference.

7. The power of discourse and the subordination of the feminine.

8. Questions.

9. The three genres..

Section III: Ethics and subjectivity: towards the future.

Introduction to Section III.

10. Sexual difference.

11. Questions to Emmanuel Levinas.

12. Women-amongst-themselves: creating a woman-woman sociality.

13. The necessity for sexuate rights.

14. How to define sexuate rights?.

15. He risks who risks life itself.

Bibliography.

Index.

Additional information

GOR001791839
9780631170433
063117043X
The Irigaray Reader: Luce Irigaray by Margaret Whitford (University of London)
Used - Very Good
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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