I Love to You: Sketch of A Possible Felicity in HistoryIn this book, one of the foremost contemporary scholars in the fields of feminist thought and linguistics, explores the possibility of a new liberating language and hence a new relationship between the sexes. In I Love to You, Luce Irigaray moves from the critique of patriarchy to an exploration of the ground for a possible inter-subjectivity between the two sexes. Continuing her rejection of demands for equality, Irigaray poses the question: how can we move to a new era of sexual difference in which women and men establish lasting relations with one another without reducing the other to the status of object? |
Contents
| 1 | |
Love Between Us | 19 |
2 Human Nature is Two | 35 |
3 Sexual Difference as Universal | 43 |
4 Donning a Civil Identity | 49 |
Woman | 59 |
6 She Forgotten Between Use and Exchange | 69 |
7 Two of Us Outside Tomorrow? | 79 |
8 He I Sought But Did Not Find | 97 |
9 You Who Will Never Be Mine | 103 |
10 I Love To You | 109 |
11 In Almost Absolute Silence | 115 |
12 A Breath That Touches in Words | 121 |
Love Between Passion and Civility | 129 |
Epilogue | 143 |
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