The Irigaray Reader

by Luce Irigaray, Margaret Whitford (Editor), David Macey (Translator)

Luce Irigaray is one of the leading French feminist philosophers and psychoanalysts. The Irigaray Reader is a collection of her most important paeprs to date, ranging across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics. A number of them appear here for the first time in English.

Genres: Philosophy, Feminism, Theory, Academic

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Presently, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.

Reviews

[Gillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really interesting take on sex/gender/language and societies influences on all these things.

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of Irigaray's landmark essays and thinking, with some good introductory and explanatory remarks by Whitford. A must-have for Irigaray scholars.