About the book
The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.
Editions of Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being
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- ISBN 9781438451275
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781438451282
- PDF
- ISBN 9781438451299
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The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.
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What is Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being about?
The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being?
Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Gender studies, gender groups > Gender studies: women and girls > Feminism and feminist theory
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How long is Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being and how many pages does it have?
Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being has 280 page(s)
Is Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series SUNY series in Gender Theory
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being?
Virpi Lehtinen
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Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438451275) and paperback(ISBN 9781438451282) and pdf(ISBN 9781438451299)
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