This Sex Which is Not One by Luce Irigaray (translated by Catherin Porter)


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By ZoOeY on Monday, January 19, 1998 - 03:00 pm:

This is what I'm currently indulging in.


By Suedehead on Wednesday, February 11, 1998 - 09:41 am:

Hi ZoOey. I read that a few years ago now and I have to say that it had a most profound impact on me. Particularly in examining the mother/daughter relationship.
I hope you gain as much from it as I did.
Luce Irigaray gives us all the more reason to treasure feminist scholarship.


By BILL LEONARDO on Sunday, May 17, 1998 - 05:37 pm:

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING A BOOK BY IRIGARAY ENTITLED 'LE TEMPS DE LA DIFFERENCE' AND NOT ONLY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF HER BEFORE BUT I CANNOT FIND THE BOOK ANYWHERE. I THINK THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION WOULD BE 'THE TIME OF DIFFERENCE' OR EVEN 'THE POINT OF DIFFERENTIATION' . IF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THIS BOOK OR KNOW ANYTHING OF IT PLEASE CONTACT ME BY LEAVING YOUR ADDRESS IN THE MESSAGE BOX.


By Anonymous on Monday, June 8, 1998 - 10:05 am:

Bill,
No need to shout. Go to Amazon.com and you will find the book.
Brandon


By Karin Montin on Wednesday, July 1, 1998 - 03:03 pm:

The English title is "Thinking the Difference"


By Laura Ross on Saturday, August 29, 1998 - 05:04 pm:

So, have any of you seen what is posted in the "Mixture - AntiSexist" site re Irigaray? I find the developmental stage these women are in to be quite disturbing. And will we ever have an easier way through the theory/practise pseudo-splits? I don't mind people wanting to protect their labels, "feminist" for example, but to seek to undermine the potential inherent in creative energies of thinkers like Irigaray,Cixous, etc. is unacceptable and contrary to real change and certainly to the integrity of our activist heritage.

Is Irigaray dangerous? Absolutely. Especially to those who linger in the mirrors of patriarchal fear and still want to call that "feminism".

I sincerely doubt she would agree that she is a product of American feminism. American feminist epistemology has some ways to go before we have a creation of our own... .


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