Description
Book SynopsisIn eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.
Trade ReviewPsychoanalyst and philosopher by profession, feminist by choice, and radical by nature, Irigaray is one of the most important women writers of contemporary France, with an armful of books since the early seventies, two of them now translated into English.
* The Antioch Review *
This Sex is complex, readable, and worth the effort it takes to make it part of what you know. It is a valuable step in disrupting phallic discourse and jamming the theoretical machinery itself.
* Perspectives *
The publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions.
* Women's Review of Books *
Table of Contents1. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side
2. This Sex Which Is Not One
3. Psychoanalytic Theory: Another Look
4. The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine
5. Cosi Fan Tutti
6. The "Mechanics" of Fluids
7. Questions
8. Women on the Market
9. Commodities among Themselves
10. "Frenchwomen," Stop Trying
11. When Our Lips Speak Together
Publisher's Note and Notes on Selected Terms
