Democracy Begins Between Two / Edition 1

by Luce Irigaray, Kirsteen Anderson

Overview

In Democracy Begins Between Two, Luce Irigaray calls for a form of specific civil rights guaranteeing women a separate civil identity of their own equivalent to-though not simply the same as-that enjoyed by men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415918169
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2001
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luce Irigaray is a leading philosopher and feminist thinker, best known for Speculum of the Other Woman (1990) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1990). She is author of I Love to You (1994), To Be Two (2000), Elemental Passions (1992) and Je, Tu, Nous (1992), all published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note;

List of Acronyms;

Introduction;

I Want Love, Not War; Feminine Identity: Biology or Social Conditioning?;

Women's Enslavement;

How to Manage the Transition from Natural to Civil Coexistence;

Towards a Citizenship of the European Union;

Refounding the Family on a Civil Basis;

Democracy is Love;

The Question of the Other;

A Two-Subject Culture;

Ten Suggestions for the Construction of the European Union;

Politics and Happiness;

The Representation of Women;

Europe Captivated by New Myths;

Appendix;

Notes