Sexual Difference
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of feminism and women's rights in Italy. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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An Ethics of Sexual Difference
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780826477125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuce 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
Author: Stephen Frosh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0415068444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference
Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300052251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays cover historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological approaches, ethics and politics, and the policy implications of the real and perceived differences between the sexes
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
Author: Lisa Disch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 1088
ISBN-13: 0190623616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal 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.
Writing and Sexual Difference
Author: Elizabeth Abel
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780226000763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays discuss feminist criticism, attitudes toward sexual difference, female identity, and the works of Eliot and Stein
Transgender Psychoanalysis
Author: Patricia Gherovici
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317594177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the author’s clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual difference. We are living in a "trans" moment that has become the next civil rights frontier. By unfixing our notions of gender, sex, and sexual identity, challenging normativity and essentialisms, trans modalities of embodiment can help reorient psychoanalytic practice. This book addresses sexual identity and sexuality by articulating new ideas on the complex relationship of the body to the psyche, the precariousness of gender, the instability of the male/female opposition, identity construction, uncertainties about sexual choice—in short, the conundrum of sexual difference. Transgender Psychoanalysis features explications of Lacanian psychoanalysis along with considerations on sex and gender in the form of clinical vignettes from Patricia Gherovici's practice as a psychoanalyst. The book engages with popular culture and psychoanalytic literature (including Jacques Lacan’s treatments of two transgender patients), and implements close readings uncovering a new ethics of sexual difference. These explorations have important implications not just for clinicians in psychoanalysis and mental health practitioners but also for transgender theorists and activists, transgender people, and professionals in the trans field. Transgender Psychoanalysis promises to enrich ongoing discourses on gender, sexuality, and identity.
What Does a Woman Want?
Author: Shoshana Felman
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1993-10
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780801846205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines 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.
What Is Sexual Difference?
Author: Mary C. Rawlinson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0231554680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuce Irigaray has written that “sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age.” Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how sexual difference structures being and subjectivity, organizes our experience of the world, and affects the images and discourses involved in knowledge production and practical action. No other philosopher has paid such careful attention to the consequences of the elision of sexual difference in philosophical thought. However, at a time when notions of sexual and gender difference are hotly contested, Irigaray’s thought has often been dismissed as essentialist or reductively binary. This book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race. Their essays directly confront the charge of essentialism, exploring how Irigaray’s thought opens new possibilities for understanding the complexity of gender identities, including nonbinary and trans experiences as well as alternative configurations of masculinity and femininity. Though Irigaray is sometimes accused of a failure to appreciate racial difference, contributors show the productive role of her work in thinking race. This book also illuminates how Irigaray’s work provides creative practices that help realign human experience and our relations with nature and each other.
