Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 17:06:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Shaunanne Tangney <st-AT-scs.unr.edu> Subject: Re: Irigaray and "blame" On Wed, 4 Oct 1995 CPeebles-AT-aol.com wrote: > More and more over recent years, it seems, Irigaray is preoccupied by the > possibility of happiness (which, I think, is indistinguishable from questions > of ethics for her) between men and women as two sexes belonging to one > species, which is always double in its nature. this word "double" seems key to me--cixous uese the words "pair" and "couple" and somehow these are so much less dichotomous, so much less binary, so much less binary. . . i know they still refer to "twos", but again the plural "twos" and not the singular "two" feels hopeful in my mouth. i know that my ideas are viewed as utopian, but that's ok--we gotta start somehow (derrida says we begin wherever we are), but if we (re)(in)scribe the language thus, i think it is a start. . . > I would be interested, by the way, in hearing anyone's thoughts on Irigaray's > use of the word "nature," especially in a work like *J'aime a toi*. > I've been enjoying the discussions, albeit passively. i too would be interested in this! best, shaunanne > Thanks, > Catherine Peebles > ------------------
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