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Book SynopsisIncorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world, and an ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.
Trade Review"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too... This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray's notion of a community without gender wars is important." -- Library Journal "[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carry provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." -- Religious Studies Review "It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." -- Ascent Magazine
Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition The Time of Life Eastern Teachings The Way of Breath Being I, Being We The Family Begins with Two Approaching the Other as Other Mixing: A Principle for Refounding Community
