Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Gender Theory
Antal sidor280
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438451282

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Body 1. Feminine Existential Style: An Operative Concept2. The Philosophical Discourse and Canon, and Femininity3. Irigaray’s Activity of Productive Mimesis: Opening of the Possibility of Original Feminine Expressivity4. Phenomenology of the Body: the Methodological and Conceptual Framework for Irigaray’s Investigations of Lived Embodiment and Expressivity5. The Feminine Lived BodyConclusions to Part IPart II. Desire 6. Irigaray’s Account of the Beloved Woman as a "Man’s Woman"7. Opening up the Possibility of Woman’s Self-Love and Love among Women8. Male Phenomenologists’ Promise of the Uniqueness of Woman in Carnal Love9. The Continuum of Caressing Gestures in Accordance with the Holistic Conception of Sexuality10. The Philosophical Discourses of Carnal Love: Obstacles and Openings for the Becoming of a Woman Lover11. The Male Lover, the Feminine Beloved One: A Specific Way of Understanding (Carnal) Love12. Irigaray Writing, Speaking, and Acting as a Woman LoverConclusions to Part IIPart III. Wisdom 13. Original Aspects of Woman in Philosophy: Intermediating between Materiality and Spirituality, Nature and Gods14. Irigaray as a Midwife for Diotima’s Daimonic Philosophy of Eros15. Writing: An Intervention into the Neutrality and Absoluteness of the Subject and a Model of Sensible IdealityConclusions to Part IIIConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex