The Irigaray Reader: Luce Irigaray (Blackwell Readers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631170421 ISBN 13: 9780631170426

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

Luce Irigaray is one of the leading French feminist philosophers and psychoanalysts. Her work is concerned primarily with the construction of feminity and sexual differences in Western philosophy and with the exploration of new psychoanalytical and feminist perspectives on sexual differences. She has written a number of influential books, notably "Speculum of the Other Woman" and "This Sex Which Is Not One", both translated into English. "The Irigaray Reader" is a collection of Luce Irigaray's most important papers to date. They range across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linuistics, and are grouped here into three broad sections: the critique of patriarchy, psychoanalysis and language, and ethics and subjectivity. Each section begins with an introduction by Margaret Whitford, and the book also includes bibliographies of works by and about Irigaray. A number of pieces in "The Iriganay Reader" appear for the first time in English.

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Review

"A magnificent sample of the best and the boldest of Irigaray′s writings and the projects she calls for and calls forth. An excellent text for both introductory and advanced work on Irigaray." Choice

"Essential reading for those who seek a genuine understanding of the breadth and radicalism of her oeuvre. " The Modern Language Review

From the Back Cover

Luce Irigaray is a practising psychoanalyst, and formerly a member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris. She has also held a research post at the Centre National de Research Scientifiques since 1964, where she is now a Director of Research in Philosophy.

Irigaray is one of the most well know and controversial of radical thinkers, who has contributed to the feminist challenge to western thought in the areas of linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy and theories of representation. Yet most of her major work remains still untranslated.

Most of the essays in The Irigaray reader appear for the first time in English, spanning Irigaray′s output from the publication of Speculum in 1974 to some of her most recent interventions. The introduction provides an overview of Irgaray′s work, while each of the three sections is prefaced by contextualising comments, enabling the reder t osituate the extracts both within Iragara′s thoght and also within feminist theory.

For those who know Irigaray only from her work in the seventies (Speculum and This Sex Which is not One) The Reader will provide an invaluable initial approach to her evolution is a thinker throughout the eighties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631170421
• ISBN 13: 9780631170426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Whitford Margaret