स्पेकुलम ऑफ़ द अदर वुमन

परिचय

Speculum de l’autre femme was Irigaray’s second doctoral thesis, published in Paris in 1974; after its appearance the Lacanian department of psychoanalysis at the University of Vincennes dismissed her from her teaching post. The book moves backwards through history: it begins with Freud’s lecture on femininity, passes through texts by philosophers and mystics from Plotinus to Hegel, and ends with a rereading of Plato’s cave as a womb (hystera). Irigaray argues that Western thought has defined woman only in relation to man – as his lack, his opposite or his mirror – so that a feminine subject has not yet been represented. The speculum of the title is both a concave mirror and a gynaecological instrument.

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जिनकी आलोचना की

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• माँ की प्रतीकात्मक व्यवस्था1991 · लुइसा मुरारो

लूस इरिगरे की और कृतियाँ

• 1977दिस सेक्स व्हिच इज़ नॉट वन