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This Sex which is Not One. Luce Irigaray. Cornell University Press, - Psychology - pages. 2 Reviews. In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of.  · About Luce Irigaray "This Sex Which Is Not One" () by Luce Irigaray Born in Belgium on May 3, and currently lives in France. Holds multiple post-graduate degrees in linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. Marxist scholar (focusing on women as commodities) Irigaray's. Irigaray's definition of female sexuality and sexual pleasure is centered exclusively on the female body, which is concieved not as one sexual organ, but as a plurality of them (p). The female body, she argues, cannot be reduces to one sexual organ, because this would only reaffirm the male logic of the "primacy of the phallus" (p).

The chapter on Irigaray discusses Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, and Irigaray's reception in the United States. Whitford, Margaret. Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the. Luce Irigaray's essay called "This Sex Which Is Not One" () is one that all women must read. The title of the piece has two meanings. First, it refers to women's sex as "lacking," which she doesn't believe, but in fact uses this piece to refute Freud's analysis of women's sex as missing the only desirable component. This is a detailed but precise summary of luce irigaraybltadwin.ru?sub_confirmation=1.

Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray | Hardcover | Cornell University Press. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice. The title of Irigaray's book, "This sex which is not one," makes use of the polyvalence of the French word, "sexe." As in English, in French "sexe" denotes both sexual category and the sexual activity. Irigaray plays on yet a third French meaning for the word -- the sexual organ, usually the penis. By a strange coincidence, the noun with its definite article, "le sexe" may be used to designate either "the fair sex" or "the penis.". In her article, "This sex which is not one", Luce Irigaray defies Freud's and Lacan's analyses of sexual relations and proposes a female sexuality which is self-referential and disconnected from "masculine parameters" of sexual conceptualization. She rejects Freud's and Lacan's theories of sexuality, because they are constructed "within the dominant phallic economy" (p).