Luce Irigaray's phenomenology of feminine being / Virpi Lehtinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehtinen, Virpi, 1970- author.

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory.

SUNY series in Gender Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Works by Luce Irigaray""; ""Interviews of Luce Irigaray""; ""Plato""; ""Merleau-Ponty Maurice""; ""Sartre Jean-Paul""; ""Levinas Emmanuel""; ""Introduction""; ""Methodology""; ""Material""; ""Gender as an Existential Style""; ""Woman in Philosophy""; ""Alternative Accounts of Essence and Irigaray�s Essentialism""; ""Irigaray�s Work as a Paradigmatic Example of the Constitution of Feminine Identity""; ""The Exposition of the Book""; ""Part I Body""; ""1 Feminine Existential Style: An Operative Concept""

""2 The Philosophical Discourse and Canon, and Femininity""""The Metaphysical Origins of the Philosophical Tradition""; ""The Male Philosopher�s Authority""; ""Philosophy as a Discourse""; ""Reproductive Mimesis in Platonism""; ""The Outcome of Reproductive Mimesis: Woman�s Essence""; ""An Obstacle in the Pursuit of Truth: Platonic Conception of Essence""; ""Male Authority in Defining the Sense of Femininity""; ""The “Man�s Woman�: The Maternal-Feminine and Woman�s Body""; ""The Variety of Man�s Women and Their Expressivity""; ""The Hysteric""; ""The Beloved Woman""

""4 Phenomenology of the Body: the Methodological and Conceptual Framework for Irigaray�s Investigations of Lived Embodiment and Expressivity""""The Task and Method of a Phenomenologist""; ""The Lived Body in Phenomenology: Own and Other""; ""The Role of Affectivity""; ""The Holistic Conception of Sexuality""; ""Language and Significance""; ""Irigaray�s Critique of Merleau-Ponty""; ""5 The Feminine Lived Body""; ""The Bodily Origins of Feminine Expressivity""; ""Irigaray�s Holistic Conception of Sexuality""; ""The Feminine Embodied Soul and the Divine""

""Woman for Herself: Writing and Phenomenological Exploration""""Conclusions to Part I""; ""Part II Desire""; ""6 Irigaray�s Account of the Beloved Woman as a “Man�s Woman�""; ""The Narrow Notion of Sexuality: Masculine Sexuality and its Counterpart""; ""The Act of the Beloved Woman: Seduction""; ""The Effects of Irigaray�s Writing as a Beloved Woman""; ""7 Opening up the Possibility of Woman�s Self-Love and Love among Women""; ""8 Male Phenomenologists� Promise of the Uniqueness of Woman in Carnal Love""

""9 The Continuum of Caressing Gestures in Accordance with the Holistic Conception of Sexuality""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438451299

1438451296

OCLC:

880565010