`Margaret Whitford's exploration of Luce Irigaray's work represents a landmark in the study of contemporary French thought. Lucid, rigorous and consistently assessible... Essential reading for students of French thought.' - Modern and Contemporary France

• Introduction Introductory remarks; Chapter 1 Feminism and Utopia; Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 Subjectivity and language; Chapter 3 Rationality and the imaginary; Chapter 4 Maternal genealogy and the symbolic; Philosophy; Chapter 5 The same, the semblance, and the other; Chapter 6 Identity and violence; Chapter 7 Ethics, sexuality, and embodiment; Chapter 8 Women and/in the social contract;