This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray. Translated by Catherine Porter. 1985 Cornell University, fifth printing, 222 pages. Irigaray is a feminist French philosopher and linguist. This Sex includes eleven essays on the status of women in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. This was the follow-up to Irigaray influential Speculum of the Other Woman. Speculum explores how the feminine is missing from classical works and analyses and criticized Freudian analysis. It lead to Irigaray's firing. Irigaray's works are considered major feminist scholarship and were an influence in Elena Ferrante's fiction.
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"Must this multiplicity of female desire and female language be understood as shards, scattered remnants of a violated sexuality?"
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray. Translated by Catherine Porter. 1985 Cornell University, fifth printing, 222 pages. Irigaray is a feminist French philosopher and linguist. This Sex includes eleven essays on the status of women in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. This was the follow-up to Irigaray influential Speculum of the Other Woman. Speculum explores how the feminine is missing from classical works and analyses and criticized Freudian analysis. It lead to Irigaray's firing. Irigaray's works are considered major feminist scholarship and were an influence in Elena Ferrante's fiction.
Condition: Good, owner name on end paper, pencil marginalia
"Must this multiplicity of female desire and female language be understood as shards, scattered remnants of a violated sexuality?"