Le Partage De LA Parole (Special Lecture Series, 4)

by Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigray's Zaharoff lecture is the latest episode in an extraordinary intellectual adventure begun with Speculum. De L'autre femme (1974) and continued in Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un (1977) and Ethique de al difference sexuelle (1984). The present volume not only contains the text of Le Partage de la parole itself but also reprints two earlier essays that bear upon the same topic. Irigaray is a feminist philospher whose work has always had a practical dimension. In this latest collection, her arguments are underpinned by empirical research on the language of schoolchildren and will have wide implications not only for a range of academic disciplines but for educational policy-makers and for feminism as a political force.

60 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Presently, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.