Speculum of the Other Woman

Name: Speculum of the Other Woman
Author: Luce Irigaray

by Luce Irigaray

Feminist critique of Western philosophy's masculine bias and women's philosophical exclusion

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Luce Irigaray

Belgian-French psychoanalyst and feminist philosopher whose Speculum of the Other Woman argued that Western philosophy has constructed woman as the mirror of man, not as a subject in her own right. Her subsequent work developed an ethics and linguistics of sexual difference. She is one of the central figures of French feminist theory.

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