Table of contents:
1. The Neglect of Female Genealogies. 2 Civil and Religious Myths. 3 Women's Discourse and Men's Discourse. 4 On the Maternal Order. 5 The Culture of Difference. 6 Writing as a Woman. 7 "I won't get AIDS". 8 Linguistic Sexes and Genders. 9 The Right to Life. 10 Why define Sexed Tights?. 11 "More Women than Men". 12 Your Health - what, or who, is it?. 13 How can we create our Beauty?. 14 How old are you?. 15 The Cost of Words. 16 So: When are we to become women?
Luce Irigaray is widely recognised as one of the leading figures in the study of women, language and culture. She is arguably the most original and provocative feminist theorist in contemporary French thought. Over recent years her ideas have become massively influential, not least in feminist literary theory, where they have opened up possibilities for reading women's writing and theorizing language.
In ‘Je, Tu, Nous’ Luce Irigaray offers the clearest introduction available to her own work. In a series of brief and direct pieces on gender, language, power and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her is the central problem for women in the modern world. The essays span Irigaray's thought on the importance of difference in culture, in a style that is remarkably informal, open and engaging.
This is a remarkable book which will introduce Irigaray's philosophy, with her vision of necessary cultural change, to the widest audience so far.
Irigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her has become the central problem for women in the modern world.
1. The Neglect of Female Genealogies. 2 Civil and Religious Myths. 3 Women's Discourse and Men's Discourse. 4 On the Maternal Order. 5 The Culture of Difference. 6 Writing as a Woman. 7 "I won't get AIDS". 8 Linguistic Sexes and Genders. 9 The Right to Life. 10 Why define Sexed Tights?. 11 "More Women than Men". 12 Your Health - what, or who, is it?. 13 How can we create our Beauty?. 14 How old are you?. 15 The Cost of Words. 16 So: When are we to become women?
Luce Irigaray is widely recognised as one of the leading figures in the study of women, language and culture. She is arguably the most original and provocative feminist theorist in contemporary French thought. Over recent years her ideas have become massively influential, not least in feminist literary theory, where they have opened up possibilities for reading women's writing and theorizing language.
In ‘Je, Tu, Nous’ Luce Irigaray offers the clearest introduction available to her own work. In a series of brief and direct pieces on gender, language, power and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her is the central problem for women in the modern world. The essays span Irigaray's thought on the importance of difference in culture, in a style that is remarkably informal, open and engaging.
This is a remarkable book which will introduce Irigaray's philosophy, with her vision of necessary cultural change, to the widest audience so far.
Irigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her has become the central problem for women in the modern world.
'These translations of Luce Irigaray's works will make a powerful contribution to feminist scholarship in philosophy, political theory, psycho-analysis, linguistics and poetics. Theorists of sexual difference will find a serious and subtle challenge in Irigaray's latest provocations.'- Judith Butler
'Luce Irigaray is, arguably, one of the most original and provocative feminist theorists in contemporary French though.' - Elizabeth Grosz
'Luce Irigaray is, arguably, one of the most original and provocative feminist theorists in contemporary French though.' - Elizabeth Grosz
'These translations of Luce Irigaray's works will make a powerful contribution to feminist scholarship in philosophy, political theory, psycho-analysis, linguistics and poetics. Theorists of sexual difference will find a serious and subtle challenge in Irigaray's latest provocations.'- Judith Butler
'Luce Irigaray is, arguably, one of the most original and provocative feminist theorists in contemporary French though.' - Elizabeth Grosz
'Luce Irigaray is, arguably, one of the most original and provocative feminist theorists in contemporary French though.' - Elizabeth Grosz