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Irigaray, Luce (1932–)


Subject Philosophy

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405106795.2004.x


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Belgian-born French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst, born in Blaton, attached to the Centre National de Recherches Scientifique and lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Irigaray argues that the feminine is excluded from the cultural unconscious by the cultural repression studied by Lacan's psychoanalysis and by the metaphysical repression that is the focus of Derrida's deconstruction. She has developed a feminist philosophy of sexual difference and proposes a liberation of both men and women from the distortions of their gender roles. Her main works include Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference (1990). ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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