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Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophy of Feminism: Irigaray and the History of Western Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Claire Colebrook
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Abstract

Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential female body which precedes negation or is the feminine only an effect of exclusion? I approach Irigaray's work by way of another question: is it possible to move beyond a feminist critique of metaphysics and towards a feminist philosophy?

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 79 - 98
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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