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Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray
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Pretty much anything written by Luce Irigaray (i.e Speculum of the other woman; The sex which is not one; when our lips speak together). Me: "It's Luce Irigaray, author of 'Speculum of the Other Woman'. Absurdly awesome and thought-provoking book. Known for her defence of the phallogocentric argument, which Belgian feminist philosopher and cultural theorist is known for works such as Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1977)? Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. New York: Cornell University Press. Irigaray in Speculum of the Other Woman observes that this chromatic metaphor of light maps onto a gender economy, in which woman is darkness: “She [woman] lives in darkness…She makes no show or display. I read Speculum Of The Other Woman at University (and understood about half of it) I pride myself on writing books with strong female characters who aren't perfect, but they're not pushovers either. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Kay Steedman. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (or the sex which is not one). May April 9, 2012 at 12:55 pm | Permalink.