Topologies of Sexual Difference - Space in Philosophy and Visual Art After Irigaray

Brings together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analyses of Luce Irigaray's rethinking of space with respect to sexual difference and the visual arts.
A rethinking of space is central to Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. Topologies of Sexual Difference is the first edited collection to focus on this task through a sustained consideration of both Irigaray's critique of the Western tradition's systematic conflation of femininity and space and her transvaluative topological redeployment of space in theorizing sexual difference. Across thirteen chapters, Irigarayan space is thematized as porous, fluid, continuous, and self-differentiating. Contributors engage with the origins of life, affect, the aesthetics of the maternal and placental, an Irigarayan morphology inclusive of trans embodiment, and-in a rare focus-the expression of sexuate specificity in creative practice. Topologies of Sexual Difference thus demonstrates the fundamental importance of Irigaray's rethinking of space for Western philosophy and the visual arts.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Louise Burchill is an independent scholar and a former Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Louise Hill Burchill
• Mitarbeit: Burchill Louise (Herausgeber), Hill Rebecca (Herausgeber), James Sares (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9798855803662
• ISBN: 9798855803662
• Seiten: 294
• Serie: SUNY series in Gender Theory
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Theory of art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory