Luce Irigaray and the philosophy of sexual difference / Alison Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Alison, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce.

Feminist theory.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Luce Irigaray & the Philosophy of Sexual Difference

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Rereading Irigaray : realism and sexual difference

Judith Butler's challenge to Irigaray

Nature, sexual duality, and bodily multiplicity

Irigaray and Hölderlin on the relation between nature and culture

Irigaray and Hegel on the relation between family and state

From sexual difference to self-differentiating nature.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16869-4

1-280-48049-1

0-511-22057-X

0-511-22143-6

0-511-21950-4

0-511-31637-2

0-511-61728-3

0-511-22018-9

OCLC:

269590746

Publisher Number:

9780521862707