Ebook: Thinking with Irigaray

The work of sexual difference / Serene J. Khader -- Part I. Alternatives to masculine genealogies -- Orestes with Oedipus: Psychoanalysis and matricide / Cheryl Lawler -- Beyond the Madonna: Revisiting Luce Irigaray's aesthetics / Elaine Miller -- Animality and descent: Irigaray's Nietzsche, on leaving the sea / Penelope Deutscher -- Part II. Overcoming binary oppositions -- Beyond the vertical and the horizontal: Spirituality, space, and alterity in the work of Luce Irigaray / Gail M. Schwab -- Space and Irigaray's theory of sexual difference / D. Rita Alfonso -- Can Luce Irigaray's notion of sexual difference be applied to transsexual and transgender narratives? / Danielle Poe -- Part III. The ethical Irigaray -- The incomplete masculine: Engendering the masculine of sexual difference / Britt-Marie Schiller -- A bridge between three forever irreducible to each other(s) / Karen Houle -- Part IV. Women and interiority -- Sexuality on the market: An Irigarayan analysis of female desire as commodity / Breanne Fahs -- Fishing and thinking, or an interiority of my own: Luce Irigaray's Speculâme de l'autre femme (renversé, inversé, rétroversé) / Claire Potter -- Autonomy and divinity: A double-edged experiment / Morny Joy -- Part V. Women as political agents -- Antigone falters: Reflections on the sustainability of revolutionary subjects / Sabrina L. Hom -- Antigone's exemplarity: Irigaray, Hegel, and excluded grounds as constitutive of feminist theory / Tina Chanter.;Thinking with Irigaray takes up Irigaray's challenge to think beyond the androcentric, one-subject culture, identifying much that is useful and illuminative in Irigaray's work while also questioning some of her assumptions and claims. Some contributors reject ouright her prescriptions for changing our culture, others suggest that her perspections are inconsistent with the basic ethical concerns of her project, and still others attempt to identify blind spots in her work. By confronting and challenging the mechanisms of masculine domination Irigaray has identified and applying these insights to a wide range of practical and contemporary concerns, including popular media representations of women's sexuality, feminist practice in the arts, political resistance, and yoga, the contributors demonstrate the unique potential of Irigaray's thought within feminist philosophy and gender studies. -- from back cover.