Thinking the Difference For a Peaceful Revolution

'a good introduction to Irigaray's oeuvre' The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryDiscusses how language, religion, law, art, science and technology have failed women and how concrete changes can be made to ensure that 'our' culture belongs to both men and women.

About the author

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic.

Summary

Discusses how language, religion, law, art science and technology have failed women and why. The author goes beyond analysis and commentary to propose concrete changes tailored to women's specificity in all these fields - practical means of ensuring "our" culture is women's as well as men's.

Product details

• Authors: Luce Irigaray, Irigaray Luce
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.12.2000
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780485114263
• ISBN: 978-0-485-11426-3
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions (packing): 13.8 x 21.6 cm
• Weight (packing): 308 g
• Subjects: Cultural Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Feminism & feminist theory; Feminism and feminist theory