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Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray's thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

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Author:   Mary C. Rawlinson
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781438460284

ISBN 10:   1438460287
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   02 January 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Mary C. Rawlinson I. TIME, SPACE, AND THE UNIVERSAL In Search for the Mother Through the Looking Glass: On Time, Origins, and Beginnings in Plato and Irigaray Fanny Soderback Place, Interval: Irigaray and Ronell Rebecca Hill Further Speculations: Time and Difference in Speculum de l'autre femme Anne van Leeuwen Game Change: Philosophy after Irigaray Mary C. Rawlinson II. LANGUAGE, ART, AND WRITING Irigaray and Kristeva on Anguish in Art Elaine P. Miller A Love Letter from Beyond the Grave: Irigaray, Nothingness and La femme n'existe pas Claire Potter Wonder and Ecriture: Descartes and Irigaray, Writing at Intervals Perry Zurn Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom? Luce Irigaray's Linguistic Research in Its Latest Iteration Gail Schwab III. SCIENCE, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY Irigaray and Darwin on Sexual Difference: Some Reflections Elizabeth Grosz What Kind of Science? Reading Irigaray with Stengers Margherita Long Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound: Refiguring Waves in Audio-Technical Discourse Tara Rodgers Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought Mary Beth Mader IV. PSYCHOANALYSIS IN PRACTICE Desire at the Threshold: ""Vulvar Logic"" and Intimacy between Two Cheryl Lynch Lawler Gendering Drives: Amae, Philotes, and the Forgotten Mystery of Female Ancestry Britt-Marie Schiller Psychoanalysis and Yoga: The Feminine and the Unconscious between East and West Sara Beardsworth List of Contributors Index"

Reviews

The scholars' engagement with Irigaray's work, as described in this book, is a testament to her importance today, and in illustrating the continuing impact of Irigaray's work, this book makes a significant contribution to scholarship in contemporary feminist philosophy. - hypatia

""The scholars' engagement with Irigaray's work, as described in this book, is a testament to her importance today, and in illustrating the continuing impact of Irigaray's work, this book makes a significant contribution to scholarship in contemporary feminist philosophy."" — hypatia

"""The scholars' engagement with Irigaray's work, as described in this book, is a testament to her importance today, and in illustrating the continuing impact of Irigaray's work, this book makes a significant contribution to scholarship in contemporary feminist philosophy."" — hypatia"

Author Information

Mary C. Rawlinson is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman and (with Sabrina L. Hom and Serene J. Khader) of Thinking with Irigaray, also published by SUNY Press.

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