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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784345803321

Autore

Stone Alison <1972->

Titolo

Luce Irigaray and the philosophy of sexual difference / / Alison Stone [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16869-4

1-280-48049-1

0-511-22057-X

0-511-22143-6

0-511-21950-4

0-511-31637-2

0-511-61728-3

0-511-22018-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Sex role

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rereading Irigaray : realism and sexual difference -- Judith Butler's challenge to Irigaray -- Nature, sexual duality, and bodily multiplicity -- Irigaray and HoĢˆlderlin on the relation between nature and culture -- Irigaray and Hegel on the relation between family and state -- From sexual difference to self-differentiating nature.

Sommario/riassunto

Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a novel interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture, showing how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender, through rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is a sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and



the body. It will encourage debate on the relations between sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment.