{"product_id":"what-is-sexual-difference-9780231202732","title":"What Is Sexual Difference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Sexual Difference\u003c\/i\u003e? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to \u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003esexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eHead Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for\/by\/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of \u003ci\u003eRelational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex\/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of \u003ci\u003eLuce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text that you hold, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Sexual Difference?\u003c\/i\u003e, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to \u003ci\u003ethink with\u003c\/i\u003e her. Indeed, it is this process of \u003ci\u003ethinking with\u003c\/i\u003e Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text.  In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Elizabeth Grosz\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. Rawlinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares\u003cbr\u003e2. Opening Hegel’s Autological   Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson\u003cbr\u003e3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely\u003cbr\u003e4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex\/Gender\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim\u003cbr\u003e6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick\u003cbr\u003e7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope Deutscher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter\u003cbr\u003e9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei\u003cbr\u003e10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano\u003cbr\u003e11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian Murtagh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: Placing Sexual Difference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones\u003cbr\u003e13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom\u003cbr\u003e14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell\u003cbr\u003e15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. Reading \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi\u003cbr\u003e17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman\u003cbr\u003e18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne Huffer\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400362795351,"sku":"9780231202732","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231202732.jpg?v=1730470498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-sexual-difference-9780231202732","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}