Luce Irigaray

• Introduction Introductory remarks; Chapter 1 Feminism and Utopia; Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 Subjectivity and language; Chapter 3 Rationality and the imaginary; Chapter 4 Maternal genealogy and the symbolic; Philosophy; Chapter 5 The same, the semblance, and the other; Chapter 6 Identity and violence; Chapter 7 Ethics, sexuality, and embodiment; Chapter 8 Women and/in the social contract;

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