Luce Irigaray : teaching / edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Irigaray, Luce.

Green, Mary, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce.

Feminist theory--Congresses.

Feminist theory.

Irigaray, Luce--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]

Summary:

Luce Irigaray: Teaching explores ways to confront new issues in education. Three essays by Irigaray herself present the outcomes of her own experiments in this area and develop proposals for teaching people how to coexist in difference, reach self-affection, and rethink the relations between teachers and students.

In the last few years, Irigaray has brought together young academics from various countries, universities and disciplines, all of whom were carrying out research into her work. These research students have received personal instruction from Irigaray and at the same time have learnt from one another by sharing with the group their own knowledge and experience. Most of the essays in this book are the result of this dynamic way of learning that fosters rigour in thinking as well as mutual respect for differences.

The central themes of the volume focus on five cultural fields: methods of recovery from traumatic personal or cultural experience; the resources that arts offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; creative interpretation and embodiment of the divine; and new perspectives in philosophy. This innovative collaborative project between Irigaray and researchers involved in the study of her work gives a unique insight into the topics that have occupied this influential international theorist over the last thirty years.

Contents:

Part I Healing Through Gaining Silence and Self-Affection 1

1 Reborn from Silence and Touch: Gender Violence in Southern Africa / Jessica Murray 3

2 Virginal Thresholds / Christine Labuski 13

3 'The Power to Love Without Desiring to Possess': Feminine Becoming Through Silence in the Texts of Antonia White / Sherah Wells 24

Part II Dwelling in Oneself and with the Other(s) Through Art 37

4 Music and the Voice of the Other: An Engagement with Irigaray's Thinking and Feminine Artistic Musical Performance / Esther Zaplana 39

5 'But What if the Object Started to Speak?': The Representation of Female Consciousness On-Screen / Lucy Bolton 50

6 Architectural Issues in Building Community through Luce Irigaray's Perspective on Being-Two / Andrea Wheeler 61

7 Touching Hands, Cultivating Dwelling / Helen A. Fielding 69

Part III Maternal Order Within and Beyond Patriarchy 81

8 Swallowing Ice: A Study of Mothers and Daughters in Dacia Maraini's L'eta del Malessere and Columba / Christina Siggers Manson 83

9 The Maternal Order Read Through Luce Irigaray in the Work of Diamela Eltit / Mary Green 93

10 Feminist Generations: The Maternal Order and Mythic Time / Gillian Howie 103

Part IV Interpreting and Embodying the Divine 113

11 Disinterring the Divine Law: Rediscovering Female Genealogy in the Rites of Death / Sabrina L. Hom 115

12 Writing the Body of Christ: Each Flesh Becoming Word / Emily A. Holmes 127

13 Sharing Air: Becoming Two in the Spirit / Roland J. De Vries 142

14 A Future Shaped by Love: Towards a Feminist Geography of Development and Spirituality / Eleanor Sanderson 156

Part V New Philosophical Horizons 167

15 Expression and Speaking-with in the Work of Luce Irigaray / Donald A. Landes 169

16 On Rivers, Words and Becoming an Other: The Importance of Style in Luce Irigaray's Work / Laine M. Harrington 181

17 Masculine and Feminine Approaches to Nature / Karen I. Burke 189

Contributions of Luce Irigaray 201

18 Teaching How to Meet in Difference (May 2004) 203

19 The Return (May 2005) 219

20 Listening, Thinking, Teaching (June 2006) 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847060679

1847060676

9781847060686

1847060684

OCLC:

213358014