Speculum of the Other Woman View By Luce Irigaray
| Title | : | Speculum of the Other Woman |
| Author | : | Luce Irigaray |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 416 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0801493307 |
Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a dark continent, unfathomable and unapproachable its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in m Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a dark continent, unfathomable and unapproachable its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms In the first section of the book, The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry, Irigaray rereads Freud s essay Femininity, and his other writings on women, bringing to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.In the last section, Plato s Hystera, Irigaray reinterprets Plato s myth of the cave, of the womb, in an attempt to discover the origins of that ideology, to ascertain precisely the way in which metaphors were fathered that henceforth became vehicles of meaning, to trace how woman came to be excluded from the production of discourse Between these two sections is Speculum ten meditative, widely ranging, and freely associational essays, each concerned with an aspect of the history of Western philosophy in its relation to woman, in which Irigaray explores woman s essential difference from man
about Author
Luce Irigaray born 1932 Belgium is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman 1974 and This Sex Which Is Not One 1977.Irigaray received a Master s Degree in Philosophy Arts from the University of Louvain Leuven in 1955 She taught in a Brussels school from 1956 1959 She mov Luce Irigaray born 1932 Belgium is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman 1974 and This Sex Which Is Not One 1977.Irigaray received a Master s Degree in Philosophy Arts from the University of Louvain Leuven in 1955 She taught in a Brussels school from 1956 1959 She moved to France in the early 1960s In 1961 she received a Master s Degree in psychology from the University of Paris In 1962 she received a Diploma in Psychopathology From 1962 1964 she worked for the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS in Belgium She then began work as a research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS in Paris.In the 1960s Irigaray participated in Jacques Lacan s psychoanalytic seminars She trained as and became an analyst In 1968 she received a Doctorate in Linguistics In 1969 she analysed Antoinette Fouque, a leader of the French women s movement From 1970 1974 she taught at the University of Vincennes At this time Irigaray was a member of the cole Freudienne de Paris EFP , a school directed by Lacan.Irigaray s second Doctorate thesis, Speculum of the Other Woman, was closely followed by the termination of her employment at Vincennes University.In the second semester of 1982, Irigaray held the chair in Philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Her research here resulted in the publication of An Ethics of Sexual Difference.Irigaray has conducted research since the 1980s at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris on the difference between the language of women and the language of men In 1986 she transferred from the Psychology Commission to the Philosophy Commission as the latter is her preferred discipline.In December 2003, Luce Irigaray was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa by the University of London From 2004 2006, Irigaray was a visiting professor in the department of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham As of 2007, she will be affiliated with the University of Liverpool.In 2008, Luce Irigaray was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College, London From Wikipedia 
This Sex Which Is Not One
Ethics of Sexual Difference
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Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this genera
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