1st Edition

Democracy Begins Between Two

By Luce Irigaray Copyright 1994
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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; Index

Biography

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.