Thinking with Irigaray

Mary C. Rawlinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman and (with Shannon Lundeen) of The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. Sabrina L. Hom is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Serene Khader is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, SUNY. She is the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment.

"The project of 'thinking with Irigaray' is what I find especially valuable in this work; each of the contributors seeks to take up an aspect of Irigaray's thought and to develop it further in relation to a specific problematic. This is a generous approach that returns Irigaray's contribution to feminist thought by showing how to take her thinking further in ways that are creative and constructive, as well as critically informed." — Rachel Jones, University of Dundee

• IntroductionThe Work of Sexual DifferenceSerene J. KhaderPART I: Alternatives to Masculine Genealogies1. Orestes with Oedipus: Psychoanalysis and MatricideCheryl Lawler2. Beyond the Madonna: Revisiting Luce Irigaray’s AestheticsElaine Miller3. Animality and Descent: Irigaray’s Nietzsche, on Leaving the SeaPenelope DeutsherPART II: Overcoming Binary Oppositions4. Beyond the Vertical and the Horizontal: Spirituality, Space, and Alterity in the Work of Luce IrigarayGail M. Schwab5. Space and Irigaray’s Theory of Sexual DifferenceD. Rita Alfonso6. Can Luce Irigaray’s Notion of Sexual Difference Be Applied to Transsexual and Transgender Narratives?Danielle PoePART III: The Ethical Irigaray7. The Incomplete Masculine: Engendering the Masculine of Sexual DifferenceBritt-Marie Schiller8. A Bridge Between Three Forever Irreducible to Each Other(s)Karen HoulePART IV: Women and Interiority9. Sexuality on the Market: An Irigarayan Analysis of Female Desire as CommodityBreanne Fahs10. Fishing and Thinking, or An Interiority of My Own: Luce Irigaray’s Speculâme de l’autre femme (renversé, inversé, rétroversé)Claire Potter11. Autonomy and Divinity: A Double-Edged ExperimentMorny JoyPART V: Women as Political Agents12. Antigone Falters: Reflections on the Sustainability of Revolutionary SubjectsSabrina L. Hom13. Antigone’s Exemplarity: Irigaray, Hegel, and Excluded Grounds as Constitutive of Feminist TheoryTina ChanterIndex