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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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