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Existential Philosophy
Father's Law
Father’s Law
feminist critique of patriarchal knowledge
feminist epistemology
feminist ethics
feminist research
French feminism
French feminist theory
gendered subjectivity
Heretical Ethics
Imaginary Father
Irigaray's Case
Irigaray's Strategy
Irigaray’s Case
Irigaray’s Strategy
Kate Swift
Kojeve's Reading
Kojeve’s Reading
Kristeva's Understanding
Kristeva’s Understanding
Le Doeuff
male-dominated knowledges
Maternal Body
Maternal Chora
Mother Daughter Relation
Mother's Daughter
Mother’s Daughter
Phallocentric Discourses
Philosophical Imaginary
psychoanalytic feminism
Representational Specificity
Semiotic Chora
sexual difference
Sexual Subversion
sexual subversions
Signifying Practices
Product details
- ISBN 9780367719333
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sexual Subversions introduces the works of three well known, if not well-read, French feminists: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Micele Le Doeuff. It provides a map of an area where there are few detailed discussion of the achievements of these difficult, yet immensely rewarding, writers.
In doing so, this overview raises issues of general relevance to feminist research: it participates in debates around the nature of feminist theory, the relations feminist intellectuals have to male dominated knowledges, and the strategies appropriate for developing non patriarchal, autonomous or woman-centred knowledges.
No book in French feminists would be complete without including the contributions of Kristeva and Irigaray. The inclusion of Le Deouff's work, which brings a different perspective to bear on the question of sexual difference, provides a counterbalance to literary appropriations of French feminism by Anglo-American readerships. Kristeva, Irigaray and Le Deouff are the focal points of this study, precisely because each highlights the differences of the others, revealing the frameworks to which the others are committed. Nevertheless, while these writers do not present a common political or theoretical position or form a school, each addresses the question of women's autonomy from male definition, affirms the sexual specificity of women, seeks out a femininity women can use to question the patriarchal norms and ideals of femininity and rejects the preordained positions patriarchy allots to women.
Elizabeth Grosz teaches philosophy at the University of Sydney and is the author of a forthcoming study of Jacques Lacan. Among the many works to which she has contributed are Feminist Challenges and Crossing Boundaries.
