Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and ‘the Greeks’

Cox, Lara

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Irigaray, Luce (b. 1930)

Wright¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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Luce Irigaray is the foremost political theorist of sexual difference, which she identifies as the most basic and universal form of alterity. Irigaray (1994, 2000, 2004) advocates the development of a feminine culture and subjectivity, accompanied by specific political rights based on a positive definition of women as women (not as gender‐neutral citizens), including a right to virginity, freedom from pornography and exploitative advertising, and motherhood. Only a recognition of and respect for difference, the creation of a culture of two subjects, and the resulting “peaceful revolution” will allow us to build a truly democratic global society and to check modern forms of destruction such as the degradation of nature (including our own) and materialism.

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Irigaray, Luce (b. 1930)

Wright¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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Fairies, Mermaids, Mothers, and Princesses: Sexual Difference and Gender Roles inPeter Pan

Shipley

2012

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

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Luce Irigaray postulates a homosocial cultural order in her article ''When the Goods Get Together'' (1981), a cultural order of men that is threatened by the possibility of female unity or females ''getting together'' and disrupting the play among men. This article applies Irigaray's analysis of the homosocial order to the story of Peter Pan to expose and illuminate the ways a childhood story demonstrates the very cultural order Irigaray argues is at the heart of men's system of trade and economy. Peter Pan not only teaches children this particular male cultural order, and places an implicit fear around notions of female unity, but also as part of a larger cultural product stories like Peter Pan often reflect the reality they claim is pretend. Applying psychoanalytic critique to a cultural product, standards of gender normativity that are replicated through children's stories are laid bare.

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Cultural Anthropology of the Penn State Tragedy

Sydnor

2012

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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The essay uses the theoretical-methodological strategy of notes and listing (following the practices of Susan Sontag and Umberto Eco, among others) to illuminate particular, unique historical and cultural-anthropological aspects of the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State scandal/tragedy. Special attention is devoted in the essay to critique of depictions of the Catholic Church, ancient Greece, the "unsayable," and social memory in regard to their links to the Penn State tragedy. Tribute is paid to those such as Murray Sperber, Michael Bérubé and Cary Nelson, whose scholarly activism foresaw and attempted to prevent such a scandal. Influenced by ideas about ritual forwarded by Seligman, Weller, Piett and Simon, ultimately the essay seeks to forward a distinctive understanding of the nature of sport that goes against common scholarly and popular beliefs.

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Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and ‘the Greeks’

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Irigaray, Luce (b. 1930)

Irigaray, Luce (b. 1930)

Fairies, Mermaids, Mothers, and Princesses: Sexual Difference and Gender Roles inPeter Pan

Cultural Anthropology of the Penn State Tragedy

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