Speculum of the Other Woman: New Edition

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0801493307 ISBN13: 9780801493300 Release Date: May 1985 Publisher: Cornell University Press Length: 416 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, "The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry," Irigaray rereads Freud's essay "Femininity," and his other writings on women, bringing to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a m