Laura Carpenter
EH 422
20 October 2015
Irigaray, Luce. “Women on the Market.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 799-811. Print.
Irigaray addresses feminism from a perspective of a male dominant society. According to Irigaray, “[t]he exploitation of the matter that has been sexualized female is so integral a part of our sociocultural horizon that there is no way to interpret it except within this horizon” (799). Women must understand their role in the battle over gender in order to allow for the feminine connotation to take second place. She argues for women to make a stand and break the chains of a male-dominated society. Irigaray describes society as “[t]he society
EH 422
20 October 2015
Irigaray, Luce. “Women on the Market.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 799-811. Print.
Irigaray addresses feminism from a perspective of a male dominant society. According to Irigaray, “[t]he exploitation of the matter that has been sexualized female is so integral a part of our sociocultural horizon that there is no way to interpret it except within this horizon” (799). Women must understand their role in the battle over gender in order to allow for the feminine connotation to take second place. She argues for women to make a stand and break the chains of a male-dominated society. Irigaray describes society as “[t]he society