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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Part I The Critique of Patriarchy: Introduction to Part I
• 1 Equal or Different?
• 2 The Bodily Encounter with the Mother
• 3 Women-Mothers, the Silent Substratum of the Social Order
• 4 Volume without Contours
• Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Introduction to Part II
• 5 Poverty of Psychoanalysis
• 6 The Limits of the Transference
• 7 The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine
• 8 Questions
• 9 The Three Genres
• Part III Ethics and Subjectivity: Towards the Future: Introduction to Part III
• 10 Sexual Difference
• 11 Questions to Emmanuel Levinas
• 12 Women-amongst-themselves: Creating a Woman-to-Woman Sociality
• 13 The Necessity for Sexuate Rights
• 14 How to Define Sexuate Rights?
• 15 He Risks Who Risks Life Itself
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Newly translated selections from the three main stages of Irigaray's development to date. The volume is comprehensive and representative in its choices of essays and, in addition, provides useful background information in its introductions to the three sections. Section 1, "The Critique of Patriarchy," focuses on recent work on the mother-daughter lost genealogy, on the need for a female "imaginary," and on male fantasies that orient Western metaphysics and society. Section 2, "Psychoanalysis and Language," offers Irigaray's objections to Lacanian psychoanalysis in terms of its politics, ethics, and the repression of its own desires. The relation of women to language as gendered and to the "three genders" is also analyzed here. Section 3, "Ethics and Subjectivity: Towards the Future," gathers the themes of woman as other, the need for a distinct female subjectivity, sexual difference and spirituality, and the ethics of sexual difference. A magnificent sample of the best and the boldest of Irigaray's writings and the projects she calls for and calls forth. An excellent text for both introductory and advanced work on Irigaray. I. E. Harvey; Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus