"Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through."
"Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be
our 'salvation' if we thought it through."
"...any theory of the subject has always been appropriated by the 'masculine.'"
"One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which means already to convert a form of subordination into an affirmation, and thus to thwart it."
"...to posit a gender, a God is necessary: guaranteeing the infinite."
French psycholinguist and philosopher, author of Passions
Elementaires (Elemental Passions) (1982), Ethique
de la Difference Sexuelle (An Ethics of Sexual Difference)
(1984), and Je,
Tu, Nous: Pour une Culture de la Difference (Je, Tu, Nous: Toward
a Culture of Difference) (1990). Irigaray examines the systematic
suppression of feminine and maternal concerns from the history of Western
philosophy in Ce
sexe qui n'en est pas un (This sex which is not one) (1977),
arguing that valorization of the masculine is destructive to the fluid
multiplicity of feminine sexuality. Her essays often try to convey the
significance of subjectivity by modifying the conventions of putatively
'objective' speech. In Speculum
de l'autre femme (Speculum of the Other Woman) (1974), Irigary
argues that women can de-center the "master discourse" of linguistic communication
by affirming their biological duality.
--From Garth Kemerling's Philosophical
Dictionary
Links
Luce
Irigaray at Art and Culture
"Luce Irigarary:
A Biography" by Bridget Holland
Postmodern
or Poststructural Feminism
Selected
passages from Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which is Not One
Luce
Irigaray (Discussion of This Sex Which is Not One)
Claire
Goldstein on Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not One
Gabriella
Romani on Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not One
Seiko
Yoshinaga on Irigaray, "Women on the Market"
Sean
McDaniel on Irigaray, "Woman on the Market"
"Reader's
Guide to Irigaray's "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the
Feminine" by Pamela den Ouden
Luce
Irigaray on Subjectivity
Brief bio
Irigaray at xrefer
Irigaray
links
Irigaray
quote
"Looking
at Bourgeois through Irigaray's Gesturing Towards the Mother" by Hilary
Robinson
"Je--Luce Irigaray:
A Meeting with Luce Irigaray" by Elizabeth Hirsh and Gary A. Olson
"Islam, Irigaray,
and the Retrieval of Gender" by Abdal Hakim Murad
"In Search of
Feminist Discourse:. The ‘Difficult’ Case of Luce Irigaray" by Robert de
Beaugrande
"Subjectivity
and Gender: Luce Irigaray's, Judith Butler's and Riot Girl's Gender Challenge"
by Vanessa Long
"Cyber-Feminism
with a Difference" by Rosi Braidotti
"Feminism and love of
the 'Unreal' God" by Esther D. Reed
"Mourning
the Other, Cultural Cannibalism, and the Politics of Friendship" by Penelope
Deutscher
"The Object Ophelia
in Bloom" by Pia Sivenius
"Princess
Diana, Mother Teresa, and the Value of Women's Work" by Derek Stanovsky
"The
Style of the Speaking Subject: Irigaray's Empirical Studies of Language
Production" by Marjorie Hass
"Digital, Human,
Animal, Plant: The Politics of Cyberfeminism?" by Susanna Paasonen
"Tracing Sexual
Difference: Beyond the Aporia of the Other" by Pamela Anderson
"An Act of Faith:
Irigaray's Gender Identity and the Derridean Other" by Richard Hancuff
"The Economics
of Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Monna Innominata" by Krista Lysack
"The
Dangerous Luce Irigary: An Anti-Feminist Woman..." by Maryse Guerlais
Introduction to
Feminist
Interpretations of Aristotle in Re-Reading the Canon
Review
of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense
Irigaray
at Erratic Impact
French Feminism's
Holy Trinity
Books
To
Be Two
by Luce Irigaray, Monique Rhodes (Translator), Marco F. Cocito Monoc
(Translator)
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Democracy
Begins Between Two
by Luce Irigaray
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Elemental
Passions
by Luce Irigaray, Joanne Collie (Translator), Judith Still (Translator)
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An
Ethics of Sexual Difference
by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke (Translator), Gillian C. Gill (Translator)
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The
Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (The Constructs Series)
by Luce Irigaray, Mary Beth Mader (Translator)
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I
Love to You : Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History
by Luce Irigaray, Alison Maritn (Translator), Alison Martin (Translator)
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The
Irigaray Reader (Blackwell Readers)
by Luce Irigaray, Margaret Whitford (Editor), David Macey (Translator)
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Je,
Tu, Nous : Towards a Culture of Difference
by Luce Irigaray, Alison Martin (Translator)
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Marine
Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
by Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. Gill (Translator)
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Sexes
and Genealogies
by Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. Gill (Translator)
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Speculum
of the Other Woman
by Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. Gill (Translator)
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Thinking
the Difference : For a Peaceful Revolution
by Luce Irigaray, Karin Montin (Translator)
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This
Sex Which Is Not One
by Luce Irigaray, Catherine Porter (Translator), Carolyn Burke (Translator)
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Speech
Is Never Neutral
by Luce Irigaray
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Why
Different? Collected Interviews (Foreign Agents Series)
by Luce Irigaray, Sylvere Lotringer (Editor)
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Ecstatic
Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition : Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray
by Patricia J. Huntington
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Antigone's
Claim
by Judith P. Butler
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Engaging
With Irigaray : Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought (Gender
and Culture)
by Carolyn Burke (Editor), Naomi Schor (Editor), Margaret Whitford
(Editor)
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Irigaray
& Deleuze : Experiments in Visceral Philosophy
by Tamsin E. Lorraine
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Textures
of Light : Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
by Cathryn Vasseleu
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