Irigaray's Body Symbolic

Hypatia 6 (3):97 - 110 (1991)
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This paper explores the symbolic implications of Luce Irigaray's images of the female body, particularly the two lips and the mucous. It suggests that Irigaray's work reveals some of the problems attendant on "positive images of women.".

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00257.x

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This Sex Which Is Not One.Luce Irigaray - 1977 - Cornell University Press.
Ethique de la différence sexuelle.Luce Irigaray - 1984 - Les Editions de Minuit.

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