ethics of sexual difference

gendered science

nature

sensible transcendental

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Belgian

French

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philosopher

psychoanalyst

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contemporary philosophy

feminist theory

gender and sexuality studies

philosophy

postmodernism

psychoanalysis

gender studies

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feminist

scientific organization

École Freudienne de Paris

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is the idea that solid mechanics is better developed than fluid mechanics because the male-dominated institution of physics associates solidity and fluidity with the gendered sex organs.

Luce Irigaray, for example, has argued that the science of solid mechanics is better developed than the science of fluid mechanics because the male-dominated institution of physics associates solidity and fluidity with the male and female sex organs, respectively.'

is that glass enclosure, that spangled sepulchre.

Luce Irigaray refers to nature as 'that glass enclosure, that spangled sepulchre' (1985: 228). Nature is here troped as fragile and transparent private property enclosed from the robust and opaque global commons, and as a tomb decorated like a planetarium in which the necrophiliac (even necrophagic) rites of patriarchal capitalism are performed on the dead body of once living land and water.

is irigary's proposal that because religion is caught up in power and culture, making a transcendental God all-too-often a male God, we ought to have a sensible divinity that will help western culture overcome its dualisms and prejudices about those dualisms.

Irigaray follows Feuerbach in interpreting the divine as an organizing principle for both identity and culture. Religion is thus viewed as caught up in power and culture. Irigaray specifically targets male dominated religions that posit a transcendental God. She believes that these religions reinforce male dominance and the division of the world into male/subject and female/body. She suggests that in place of a religion that focuses on a transcendent God, we construct a divinity that is both sensible and transcendental. In other words, given the connection between religion and culture, and the manner in which the mind/body split has fallen out along gender lines, why not propose a vision of divinity that will help Western culture overcome its dualisms and prejudices about those dualisms.'

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