Speculum of the Other Woman

Name: Speculum of the Other Woman
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ISBN: 9780801493300

ISBN-10: 0801493307

ISBN-13: 9780801493300

Edition: 1985

Authors: Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/10/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English