Questioning Irigaray: A Concluding Lecture

The 2023 iteration of GENDER.ED's Deep Dive explored the work of Luce Irigaray, a French-Belgian feminist philosopher and author of multiple books including Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), An Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993) and The Way of Love (2002). This lecture will focus on questions generated by reading group attendees, throughout the course of the Deep Dive. It may, however, be of interest to independent readers who would like more clarity on Irigaray's theoretical offerings.

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Mary Rawlinson. Professor Rawlinson is a Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London and Emerita Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University in New York. Rawlinson’s publications include The Betrayal of Substance: death, literature, and sexual difference in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Columbia University Press, 2021), Just Life: bioethics and the future of sexual difference (Columbia University Press, 2016), Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray (SUNY, 2016), Thinking with Irigaray (SUNY, 2011), and Derrida and Feminism (Routledge, 1997). Her next book Liminal Justice investigates the idea of justice in crime fiction. Rawlinson was the founding editor of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2006-2016) and Co-founder and Director of The Irigaray Circle (2007-2017).

The Deep Dive is a GENDER.ED initiative, run in conjunction with CRITIQUE.

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