Irigaray, Luce
This Sex Which Is Not One
- ISBN 13:
- 9780801493317
- author:
- Irigaray, Luce
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1985
- Pages:
- 208
- Genre:
- Child & developmental psychology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which is Not One explores the complexities of female sexuality in Western philosophical discourse and psychoanalytic theory. Through eleven essays, she challenges traditional notions of womanhood and articulates a feminine discourse that seeks to displace male-centered structures of language and thought. Irigaray examines the implications of Freudian and Lacanian thought on understanding womanhood, as well as classic views on the significance of the difference between male and female sex organs. She also addresses the experience of erotic pleasure in men and women, and explicitly tackles the question of economic exploitation of women, showing how it has been institutionalized by reducing women to objects of economic exchange. This translation, skillfully rendered by Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke, offers a fresh perspective on feminist issues and will be valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary feminist theory.
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