In an attempt to give body meaning, Irigaray refuses to accept the binary of the sexed body. Patriarchy views the male and female body within a constant framework. Time-periods, cultures, and traditions shape the body with different representations. Irigaray wants the body removed from its normative constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly.
Luce Irigaray is a well-known and well-respected French feminist theorist. She works as an interdisciplinary thinker in linguistics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Irigaray’s recognition came from her writing of Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she explained her theory of the exclusion of women by men philosophically and psychoanalytically. Her main goal is to help create a world where a subject for females exists when not conforming to the male subject. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Irigaray once stated that she prefers to not answer personal questions due to her beliefs that a reader could interpret her theories incorrectly in ccording with her theories. Irigaray did not explain much information about …show more content…
“Humans fear the supernatural, both the undivine…and the divine…the female, by virtue of creating flesh and blood in her stomach (she bleeds every month but does not die), by virtue of being in tune with nature’s cycle is feared… Woman is the stranger, the other. She is man’s recognized nightmarish pieces, his Shadow-Beast.” (Anzaldua, p. 39). Women are taught to fear, not embrace, positive things about their bodies and selves. The Shadow Beast, while connected to bleeding and nature, and menstrual cycles, is the decision to not follow the rules and embrace what the world shines negative light on about women’s bodies and selves. (Notes,
Luce Irigaray is a well-known and well-respected French feminist theorist. She works as an interdisciplinary thinker in linguistics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Irigaray’s recognition came from her writing of Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she explained her theory of the exclusion of women by men philosophically and psychoanalytically. Her main goal is to help create a world where a subject for females exists when not conforming to the male subject. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Irigaray once stated that she prefers to not answer personal questions due to her beliefs that a reader could interpret her theories incorrectly in ccording with her theories. Irigaray did not explain much information about …show more content…
“Humans fear the supernatural, both the undivine…and the divine…the female, by virtue of creating flesh and blood in her stomach (she bleeds every month but does not die), by virtue of being in tune with nature’s cycle is feared… Woman is the stranger, the other. She is man’s recognized nightmarish pieces, his Shadow-Beast.” (Anzaldua, p. 39). Women are taught to fear, not embrace, positive things about their bodies and selves. The Shadow Beast, while connected to bleeding and nature, and menstrual cycles, is the decision to not follow the rules and embrace what the world shines negative light on about women’s bodies and selves. (Notes,