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Irigaray's Body Symbolic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Margaret Whitford
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Abstract

This paper explores the symbolic implications of Luce Irigaray's images of the female body, particularly the two lips and the mucous. It suggests that Irigaray's work reveals some of the problems attendant on “positive images of women.”

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and the Body , Fall 1991, pp. 97 - 110
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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