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There are 13 critical essays on Luce Irigaray.
Critical Essays on Luce Irigaray

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Critical Essay by Penelope Deutscher
11,142 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Deutscher analyzes the cultural and philosophical significance of Irigaray's feminist reconceptualization of divinity in Sexes and Genealogies and An Ethics of Sexual Difference.
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Interview by Luce Irigaray, Elizabeth Hirsh, and Gary A. Olson
10,976 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following interview, originally conducted in May 1994, Irigaray discusses the specificity of her own practice as a writer, her relationship with psychoanalytic theory, and her relationship to traditional Western philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Christine Holmlund
10,485 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the following essay, Holmlund surveys Irigaray's oeuvre and its critical reception, identifying three central tropes that inform her criticism and the political/literary implications of these devices in the evolution of her thought.
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Critical Essay by Maggie Berg
9,324 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Berg proposes an ironic reading of “When Our Lips Speak Together,” situating Irigaray's “lips” metaphor as a counterpart to Lacan's “phallus” metaphor.
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Critical Essay by Naomi Schor
8,904 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Schor considers contemporary critiques of essentialism, comparing the opposing thought of Simone de Beauvoir and Irigaray.
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Critical Essay by Richard Dellamora
8,636 words, approx. 29 pages
 In the following essay, Dellamora analyzes apocalyptic rhetoric in Irigaray, comparing her vision of gender relations with that of poststructuralists Emmanuel Lévinas and Michel Foucault.
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Burke
8,324 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay, Burke discusses Irigaray's early works in the context of Lacanian and Derridean thought, examining how Irigaray's writing functions and whether it meets its own criteria.
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Critical Essay by James Robert Quick
6,723 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Quick analyzes Irigaray's philosophical construction of female subjectivity, emphasizing the “fluidity” of femininity.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Whitford
6,187 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, Whitford deals with the symbolic implications of Irigaray's images of the female body in To Speak Is Never Neutral and This Sex Which Is Not One.
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Critical Essay by Ofelia Schutte
5,985 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following essay, Schutte analyzes the critique of female identity formation in Speculum of the Other Woman, examining Irigaray's claims of phallocentric biases in psychoanalysis.
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Critical Review by Lynda Haas
4,061 words, approx. 14 pages
 In the following review, Haas examines Irigaray's thought in Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche and The Irigaray Reader, focusing on her contributions to philosophy.
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Critical Review by Penelope Deutscher
2,026 words, approx. 7 pages
 In the following review, Deutscher contends that Irigaray's later work—including I Love to You: Sketch for a Happiness within History—is less sophisticated than her earlier efforts, which many critics preferred for its deconstructive rather than progressive perspectives.
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Critical Essay by Hélène Vivienne Wenzel
1,367 words, approx. 5 pages
 In the following essay, Wenzel outlines Irigaray's feminist revision of psychoanalytic theories concerning the mother-daughter relationship in “And the One Doesn't Stir without the Other.”

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