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Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray
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Cornell University Press, 1985. Irigaray's notoriously difficult text includes a long engagement with medieval mystics, including reference to Angela of Floligno. Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray have both advocated the production of a distinctly feminine language, Cixous in “The Laugh of the Medusa” and Irigaray in “This Sex Which is Not One” and Speculum of the Other Woman. Or what about other feminist theory that uses the master's tools precisely to dismantle his house? As a sexual outsider (a dyke, a trans woman, a devout pervert, and a variety of other things), I rarely find porn that depicts anything resembling my actual sex life. Pretty much anything written by Luce Irigaray (i.e Speculum of the other woman; The sex which is not one; when our lips speak together). A mirroring and reflecting of phallocentric ideals back to men. The Speculum of the Other Woman. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (or the sex which is not one). (1984) Éthique de la Différence Sexuelle, Paris: Minuit. Like Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman, that uses Freud's own words to tear apart his theory of femininity. Porn has never made me feel bad about my .. (1974) Speculum de l'autre femme. Irigaray, on the other hand, writes very interesting philosophy, and she starts at the beginning (her critique of the Timaeus makes up the bulk of Speculum of the Other Woman) and moves forward. My relationship with porn has been a happy one. In her groundbreaking work Speculum of the Other Woman (1985), she posits that women undergo a process of “specularization,” i.e. (1977) Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un.