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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Luce Irigaray"”.
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Becoming beauty : the implications of the writings of Luce Irigaray for feminist art practices
This thesis aims to identify aspects of Luce Irigaray's work which are of significance for feminist discourses of art, including art practices and critical analyses of art works by women. Her writings have been analyzed and employed in academic fields, such as Literature, Philosophy, and Theology, …
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Luce Irigaray and the concept of woman : the fate of the dialectic after Hegel, Marx and Lacan
Includes bibliographical references.
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‘Divine love’ in the philosophical works of Luce Irigaray: a critical quest of a Korean woman seeking women’s spirituality
… provides an understanding of ‘divine love’ in Luce Irigaray’s philosophical works. It also attempts to draw implications from her notion of ‘divine love’ for a feminist theological perspective. In order to engage with Irigaray’s concept of ‘divine love’, a rather personal approach is being used …
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El cuerpo femenino y la cuestión de la diferencia sexual. Aproximación a la noción de cuerpo en la teoría feminista de Luce Irigaray
… de la diferencia sexual, encabezada por Luce Irigaray, tomando como referencia el conjunto de su obra, pero haciendo énfasis en dos de sus textos: Especulo de la otra mujer y “El cuerpo a cuerpo con la madre”. A partir de allí, se intentará demostrar la posibilidad de dar cuenta así como …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
… have drawn on the feminist critical analysis of Luce Irigaray, and on classical Hindu and Shi'ite myth, to discern ways in which the femaile has been alienated from patriarchal social reality, due to the male-defined construction of the sacred, divine and submissive woman.
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Feminism, psychology and the work of Charlotte Mew
… theory, with specific reference to Luce Irigaray, I shall demonstrate Mew's unequivocal feminism. I shall show how Mew's subversive strategies; her questioning of patriarchal institutions, and her exploration of male and female desire, subtly but significantly, undermine the …
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SPEAKING OF GENDER, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: WRITING THE PERSONAL
… gender theorists, including Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. The sections that follow use two scripts for live performance to illustrate the 'predicament' of the female performer and the importance of myth to women's artistic practice. My conclusion, and the thesis as a whole, …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
… of Cuba to understand how, in the words of Luce Irigaray, during the various “emergencies” comprising U.S. engagements with Cuba, women came to stand in for a flagging white masculinity – propping up its currencies, exchange rates, and stocks while wielding each, when possible, to their own …
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… poetic uses of language that might cause what Luce Irigaray calls “irruption of the semiotic chora”—moments within language where boundaries in the semiotic chain of signification are “blurred.” Thus, while current feminism has moved strictly away from the idea that there is an exigent …
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The Feminine Self as a Critique of Spirit: A Cultural Phenomenology
… working within the continental tradition, with Luce Irigaray leading among those who affirm fundamental differences between masculine and feminine forms of subjectivity. I take up the problem of feminine subjectivity, but my approach is distinct from that of Irigaray in terms of method and …
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An Ethics of Light: The Affective Turn of Contemporary Practices
… on the ethical thinking about light by Luce Irigaray and Karen Barad, to examine the agency of light in relation to practices and experience. In so doing, this thesis argues that an ethics of light provides a useful system of analysis to rethink light in the contemporary artistic context …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Angela Carter, Judith Butler, Kathy Acker, and Luce Irigaray. This analysis centres around Lacan’s theorization of the death drive through the figure of Antigone, and while he does not describe her as the original woman masochist, I believe she is a central figure in understanding women’s …
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Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality
… extended engagement with the work and thought of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. Next I trace an evolution of philosophical treatments of the notions of ontology and temporality, from the early groundbreaking interventions of Immanuel Kant and Martin Heidegger in the historically masculinist …
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Geometrism: How geometrical fundamentalism came to shape our world
… Edward Doolittle, and feminist thinkers Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. These reflections each, in their own ways, gesture toward modes of thought and practice less tethered to geometric fundamentalism.
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Every Frame Counts: Creative Practice and Gender in Direct Animation
… informed by conceptual frameworks provided by Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous. This thesis proposes, via interaction between these three axes of research, that women film artists, operating independently, are able to create a female imaginary that represents women and is …
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Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage
… the work of María Lugones, Audre Lorde and Luce Irigaray, I assert that philosophy needs to think through what legal theorist Kimberlè Crenshaw Williams first termed “intersectionality.” This allows me to interrogate philosophy’s conception of the subject, especially where it concerns …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… examines and experiments with the theories of Luce Irigaray in order to explore representing a female imaginary and interiority.The films explore the figural gestures of the body, inspired by Irigaray’s notion of the retouche, investigating how this could embody a female subjectivity and an …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… by feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray to explore a more experimental, bodily form of women’s writing. I also turn to disability studies to contextualize my discussion of fragmented minds and bodies and to explore the implications of imbuing physical and mental forms of …
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Despertar el pujar silencioso de los debates feministas del cuerpo y la maternidad: cuerpo materno como materialidad y práctica política en el marco de los discursos de la nación
… Nancy (2003), en relación con lo trabajado por Luce Irigaray (1974, 1981,1994) sobre el cuerpo materno exiliado de la dimensión simbólica. Con estas articulaciones entre teorías feministas y filosóficas, se propone una epistemología del cuerpo materno material como alternativa al abordaje …
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TRANSCENDING THE FEMININE: NEGOTIATING GENDER IN THE MYSTICISM OF IBN AL-‘ARABĪ AND FRANCIS OF ASSISI
… Jacques Lacan, and then expanded upon by Luce Irigaray and Amy Hollywood. The pathway linking Francis and Ibn al-ʿArabī traverses their mysticisms, their use of metaphorical language, their specific constructions of gender, theologically and poetically, and their surprisingly complementary …
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