Luce Irigaray

Mention -Book News, February 2009 The collection fills an important gap in current literature by directly addressing Irigaray's pedagogical practice. -- Oxford Journal

Luce Irigaray is a French Feminist and psychoanalytic and cultural theorist. She was previously Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and is now a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is widely acknowledged as one of France's most influential theorists. Mary Green is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Swansea University, UK.

Introduction, Michael Worton (UCL, UK); Part I: Luce Irigaray: Teaching; 1. Teaching How to Meet in Difference; 2. The Return; 3. Listening, Thinking, Teaching; Part II: The Relationship with the Mother and a Female Genealogy; 4. Motherhood, Mayhem and Madness; 5. The Ritual of Funeral in Female Genealogy; 6. Feminine Generations: The Maternal Order and Mythic Time; 7. Swallowing Ice: A Study of Mothers and Daughters in Dacia Maraini's L'eta del malessere and Colomba; 8. Speaking in Tongues: A Woman Articulating Gender Violence in Southern Africa; Part III: The Specificity of a Sexuate Art; 9. But What if the Object Started to Speak?: Creating a Culture of Two On-Screen; 10. Touching Hands, Cultivating Dwelling; 11. On Rivers, Words, and Becoming Other: The Importance of Style in Luce Irigaray's Work; 12. The Perspective of Being Two in Architecture; 13. Music and the Voice of the Other: An Engagement with Irigaray's Singing and Feminine Artistic Musical Performance; Part IV: Reopening the Horizon of Spirituality and Religion; 14. Sharing Air: Becoming Two in the Spirit; 15. The Literary Creativity of Femal Mystics; 16. Vestibular Virgins; 17. A Future Shaped by Love: Towards a Feminist Geography of Development and Spirituality; 18. The Power to Love without Desiring to Possess: Feminine Becoming Through Silence in the Texts of Antonia While; Section V: Philosophy; 19. Masculine and Feminine Approaches to Nature; 20. Expression and Speaking-With in the Work of Luce Irigaray; 21. A Review of Bioethics and the Work of Luce Irigaray.