{"product_id":"speculum-of-the-other-woman-hardback-9780801416637","title":"Speculum of the Other Woman (Hardback) 9780801416637","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuce Irigaray (Author), Gillian Gill (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801416637\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 May 1985\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions.\u003c\/p\u003e (Women's Review of Books)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a major text in the post-1968 feminist inquiry in France. It will be of interest to feminists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and literary critics. There is no other text that attempts to do readings of major texts within the Western philosophical tradition using Lacanian, Derridean, and feminist tools. Gillian C. Gill offers a remarkable performance in translating without betraying a very challenging text.\"\u003cbr\u003e ―Elaine Marks, Department of French and Italian and Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a \"dark continent,\" unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, \"The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry,\" Irigaray rereads Freud's essay \"Femininity,\" and his other writings on women, bringing to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the last section, \"Plato's Hystera,\" Irigaray reinterprets Plato's myth of the cave, of the womb, in an attempt to discover the origins of that ideology, to ascertain precisely the way in which metaphors were fathered that henceforth became vehicles of meaning, to trace how woman came to be excluded from the production of discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween these two sections is \"Speculum\"-ten meditative, widely ranging, and freely associational essays, each concerned with an aspect of the history of Western philosophy in its relation to woman, in which Irigaray explores woman's essential difference from man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BLIND SPOT OF AN OLD DREAM OF SYMMETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWoman, Science's Unknown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow Can They Immediately Be So Sure?; The Anatomical Model; A Science That Still Cannot Make Up Its Mind; A Question of Method; What Is Involved in (Re) production, and How It Aids and Abets the Phallic Order; A Difference Not Taken into Account; The Labor \"to Become a Woman\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Little Girl Is (Only) a Little Boy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Inferior Little Man; The Cards Turned Over; The Dream Interpreters Themselves; Penis Masturbation: A Necessarily Phallic Auto-eroticism; The Change of \"Object\" or the Crisis of a Devaluation; The Law of the Self-same\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs Her End in Her Beginning?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Unsuspected Love; The Desire to Have a Child by the Mother; The Father's Seduction: Law but Not Sex; The \"Reasons\" Why a Girl Hates Her Mother and a Boy Goes on Loving His; An Economy of Primal Desire That Cannot Be Represented; One More Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother \"Cause\"—Castration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAs Might Be Expected; The Gaze, Always at Stake; Anatomy Is \"Destiny\"; What the Father's Discourse Covers Up; The Negative in Phallocentric Dialectic; Is Working Out the Death Drives Limited to Men Only?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Penis-Envy\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWaiting in Vain; An Indirect Sublimation; \"Envy\" or \"Desire\" for the Penis?; Repression, or Inexorable Censorship?; Mimesis Imposed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Painful Way to Become a Woman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd the Father, Neutral and Benevolent, Washes His Hands of the Matter; A (Female) A-Sex?; Is the Oedipus Complex Universal or Not?; Free Association on Onanism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Very Black Sexuality?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSymptoms Almost Like Those of Melancholia; A Setback She Cannot Mourn; That Open Wound That Draws Everything to Itself; That Necessary Remainder: Hysteria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penis = the Father's Child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Primacy of Anal Erotism; Those Party to a Certain Lease; Woman Island Also Mother; Forbidden Games; The Hymen of Oedipus, Father and Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Deferred Action of Castration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCapitalism without Complexes; The Metaphorical Veil of the Eternal Feminine; The Other Side of History; The Submission of a Slave?; A Super-ego That Rather Despises the Female Sex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Indispensable Wave of Passivity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Redistribution of Partial Instincts, Especially Sadistic-anal Instincts; \"There Is Only One Libido\"; Idealization, What Is One's Own; The (Re)productive Organ; Confirmation of Frigidity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFemale Hom(m)osexuality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe \"Constitutional Factor\" Is Decisive; Homosexual Choice Clearly Expounded; A Cure Fails for Lack of Transference(s); Female Sameness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Impracticable Sexual Relationship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal Love; Were It Not for Her Mother?; Or Her Mother-in-law?; Squaring the Family Circle; Generation Gap, or Being Historically out of Phase?; Woman's Enigmatic Bisexuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Woman Is a Woman as a Result of a Certain Lack of Characteristics\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Ex-orbitant Narcissism; The Vanity of a Commodity; The Shame That Demands Vicious Conformity; Women Have Never Invented Anything but Weaving; A Very Envious Nature; Society Holds No Interest for Women; A Fault in Sublimation; \"La Femme de Trente Ans\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSPECULUM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Any Theory of the \"Subject\" Has Always Been Appropriated by the \"Masculine\"\u003cbr\u003e Kore: Young Virgin, Pupil of the Eye\u003cbr\u003e On the Index of Plato's Works: Woman How to Conceive (of) a Girl\u003cbr\u003e Une Mère de Glace\u003cbr\u003e \"... and if, taking the eye of a man recently dead... \"\u003cbr\u003e La Mystérique\u003cbr\u003e Paradox A Priori\u003cbr\u003e The Eternal Irony of the Community\u003cbr\u003e Volume-Fluidity\u003cb\u003ePLATO'S \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHysteria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Stage Setup\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTurned Upside-down and Back-to-front; Special Status for the Side Opposite; A Fire in the Image of a Sun; The Forgotten Path; Paraphragm\/Diaphragm; The Magic Show; A Waste of Time?; A Specular Cave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dialogues\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne Speaks, the Others Are Silent; Like Ourselves, They Submit to a Like Principle of Identity; Provided They Have a Head, Turned in the Right Direction; What Is = What They See, and Vice Versa; The A-letheia, a Necessary Denegation among Men; Even Her Voice Is Taken Away from Echo; A Double Topographic Error, Its Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Avoidance of (Masculine) Hysteria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Hypnotic Method; That Buries and Forbids \"Madness\"; A Remainder of Aphasia; The Misprison of Difference; The Unreflected Dazzle of Seduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"Way Out\" of the Cave\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe \"Passage\"; A Difficult Delivery; Then Whence and How Does He Get Out?; A World Peopled by Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Time Needed to Focus and Adjust the Vision\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImpossible to Turn Back (or Over); Were It Not, Right Now, for a Sophistry Played with Doubles; A Frozen Nature; The Auto... Taken in by the A-letheia; Bastard or Legitimate Offspring?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Father's Vision: Engendering with No History of Problems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Hymen of Glass\/Ice; The Unbegotten Begetter; Exorcism of the Dark Night; Astrology as Thaumaturgy: A Semblance (of a) Sun; A Question of Property\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Form That Is Always the Same\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Passage Confusing Big and Little, and Vice Versa; The Standard Itself\/Himself; Better to Revolve upon Oneself-But This Is Possible Only for God-the-Father; The Mother, Happily, Does Not Remember; A Source-mirror of All That Is; The Analysis of That Projection Will Never Take (or Have Taken) Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompletion of the Paideia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Failings of an Organ That Is Still Too Sensible; A Seminar in Good Working Order; An Immaculate Conception; The Deferred Action of an Ideal Jouissance; The End of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife in Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlways the Same (He); An Autistic Completeness; Love Turned Away from Inferior Species and Genera\/Gender; The Privilege of the Immortals; The Science of Desire; A Kore Dilated to the Whole Field of the Gaze and Mirroring Herself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDivine Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Back Reserved for God; The Divine Mystery; This Power Cannot Be Imitated by Mortals; How, Then, Can They Evaluate Their Potency?; Except over Someone Like Themselves?; The Father Knows the Front Side and Back Side of Everything, at Least in Theory; The Meaning of Death for a Philosopher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Unarticulated\/Inarticulate Go-Between: The Split between Sensible and Intelligible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Failure of Relations between the Father and Mother; A One-way Passage; Compulsory Participation in the Attributes of the Type; A Misprized Incest and an Unrealizable Incest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eReturn to the Name of the Father\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Regression toward the Mother; A Competition the Philosopher Will Decline to Enter; Two Modes of Repetition: Property and Proximity; Better to Work the Earth on the Father's Account Than to Return to It: Metaphor\/Metonymy; The Threat of Castration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Woman's\" Jouissance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Dead Cave Which Puts Representation Back into Play; That Marvelously Solitary Pleasure of God; A Diagonal Helps to Temper the Excessiveness of the One; The Infinite of an Ideal Which Covers the Slit (of a) Void; Losing Sight of \"the Other\"; The Vengeance of Children Freed from Their Chains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531215925528,"sku":"9780801416637","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/speculum-of-the-other-woman-hardback-9780801416637","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}