Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray

Speculum of the Other Woman



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Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray ebook
Page: 365
ISBN: 0801493307, 9780801493300
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Porn has never made me feel bad about my .. My relationship with porn has been a happy one. But also, I failed to mention, quite famously in Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman, where she critiques Merleau-Ponty's concept and counterposes the 'lips' touching each other instead of the hands. Like Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman, that uses Freud's own words to tear apart his theory of femininity. (In Speculum, Irigaray shows us how the Western intellectual tradition depends on setting woman up as man's other, as his reflection, such that she confirms his subjectivity while being deprived of her own.[1]). Luce Iragary: Her best known works: Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex is Not One (1977). Me: "It's Luce Irigaray, author of 'Speculum of the Other Woman'. I read Speculum Of The Other Woman at University (and understood about half of it) I pride myself on writing books with strong female characters who aren't perfect, but they're not pushovers either. Theoretically there would be no such thing as woman She would not exist – Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman. [i] Luce Irigaray: Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist,psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. She was inspired by the psychoanalytic theories of Jaques Lacan and the deconstruction of Jaques Derrida. As a sexual outsider (a dyke, a trans woman, a devout pervert, and a variety of other things), I rarely find porn that depicts anything resembling my actual sex life. Or what about other feminist theory that uses the master's tools precisely to dismantle his house?