Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray
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The Speculum of the Other Woman. Like many graduate students, I obsess about my particular academic interests and have a hard time letting them go at the end of the day. (1977) Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un. Furthermore, my other totemic college books — “Speculum of the Other Woman,” “Reading Black, Reading Feminist” and “Sexuality in the Field of Vision” — could go out of style, maybe; the O.E.D. I am thinking about this blog and being misunderstood. (1974) Speculum de l'autre femme. 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. Wonder Woman Wields a Speculum. Irigaray in Speculum of the Other Woman observes that this chromatic metaphor of light maps onto a gender economy, in which woman is darkness: “She [woman] lives in darkness…She makes no show or display. Luce Irigaray, a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist identified this 'masculinism' of feminists in her well-known book Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) (translated by G. Written for: [info] fullofmetal. Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (1974, P. 587)http://www.iep.utm.edu/irigaray/#SH4d. (1984) Éthique de la Différence Sexuelle, Paris: Minuit. Notes: Beta = shesayslove, title = drawn from Speculum of the Other Woman. Irigaray's notoriously difficult text includes a long engagement with medieval mystics, including reference to Angela of Floligno. Cornell University Press, 1985. By Carrie Adkins on May 12, 2012.