Table of Contents

Preface; Part I Philosophy; 1. You will never be mine; 2. The wedding between the body & language; 3. Approaching the other as other; 4. The intimate requires separate dwellings; Part II Linguistics; 5. Toward a grammar of enunciation for hysterics; 6. Being two outside tomorrow; 7. Beyond all judgement, you are; 8. Towards a Sharing of Speech; Part III Spirituality; 9. The redemption of women; 10. The age of breath; 11. Spiritual Tasks for our Age; 12. On Old & New Tablets; Part IV Art; 13. A future horizon for art; 14. The colours of flesh; 15. How can we live together in a lasting way; 16. Before and beyond any word; Part V Politics; 17. Civil rights & responsibilities for the two sexes; 18. How can you speak together in socialism's horizon; 19. How to manage the transition; 20. Politics and happiness; Bibliography

About the Author

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic.