Speculum de L’Autre Femme (Speculum of the Other Woman) by IRIGARAY, Luce - 1974

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1974. First edition. Very Good. IRIGARAY, Luce. Speculum de L’Autre Femme (Speculum of the Other Woman). Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1974. Half-title + TP + Half-title + 9-463 + [465] = Publisher’s advertisements + [467] = Imprimé, Octavo. First Edition. $250 First edition of Luce Irigaray’s doctoral dissertation, a complex engagement with the history of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. In this, her first major work, she outlines her massive project of a philosophy of sexual difference and makes her first major contribution to feminist theory. Irigaray argues that Western thought is grounded in the paternal and masculine, and explicitly estranged from the maternal and the feminine. In order to find a way forward, Irigaray undertakes a psychoanalysis of western philosophers and thinkers – especially Freud and Plato – seeking to liberate the ‘repressed’ of western culture.CONDITION: A very good+ copy in publisher’s printed wrap.

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