An Ethics of Sexual Difference
An Ethics of Sexual Difference

Author: Luce Irigaray

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780826477125

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Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.

Sexual Difference
Sexual Difference

Author: Stephen Frosh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0415068444

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This critical exploration of issues of gender in psychoanalysis acknowledges and updates the complexity of theory and writing in this area, particularly the way sexual differences can only be thought about from a gendered position.

Sexual Difference
Sexual Difference

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A history of feminism and women's rights in Italy. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

Author: Lisa Disch

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 1088

ISBN-13: 0190623616

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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference
Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference

Author: Deborah L. Rhode

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780300052251

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Essays cover historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological approaches, ethics and politics, and the policy implications of the real and perceived differences between the sexes

Writing and Sexual Difference
Writing and Sexual Difference

Author: Elizabeth Abel

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780226000763

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Essays discuss feminist criticism, attitudes toward sexual difference, female identity, and the works of Eliot and Stein

Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference
Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference

Author: Alison Stone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-15

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1139455192

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Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a novel interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture, showing how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender, through rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is a sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and the body. It will encourage debate on the relations between sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment.

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Author: Linell E. Cady

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0231162480

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Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.

The Difficulty of Difference
The Difficulty of Difference

Author: D. N. Rodowick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1317928547

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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.

What Does a Woman Want?
What Does a Woman Want?

Author: Shoshana Felman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1993-10

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780801846205

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Examines the question ("what does a woman want?") through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, and Honore' de Balzac.