Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray

Speculum of the Other Woman



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Page: 365
ISBN: 0801493307, 9780801493300


Like Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman, that uses Freud's own words to tear apart his theory of femininity. Or what about other feminist theory that uses the master's tools precisely to dismantle his house? My relationship with porn has been a happy one. Irigaray in the Speculum of the Other Woman talks of this. The idea that a 'nothing to be seen'… might have some reality, would be intolerable to man. Porn has never made me feel bad about my .. As a sexual outsider (a dyke, a trans woman, a devout pervert, and a variety of other things), I rarely find porn that depicts anything resembling my actual sex life. In this 'virtual' space, I am not one. Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. Irigaray in Speculum of the Other Woman observes that this chromatic metaphor of light maps onto a gender economy, in which woman is darkness: “She [woman] lives in darkness…She makes no show or display. I go through phases of frequently changing my profile pic on Facebook. It's a little odd even to me; partly a fascination with the ageing process but also curiosity about what being a woman is all about. Cixous, Hélène, and Catherine Clément.