Speculating on the exclusion of the feminine

Law and Critique

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-74

  Baker, Helen ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Foucault; Irigaray; Language; Myth of the cavern; Plato; Power; Sexual difference; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247458310     PISSN: 09578536     EISSN: 15728617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014953603061     Document Type: Article

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5. P. Goodrich, "Specula Laws", Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies - The Legality of the Contingent ibid.
6. Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies - The Legality of the Contingent Ibid., at 233.
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8. Murphy, supra n. 2, at 69-106, 92-94.
9. Ibid., at 94.
10. Jay, supra n. 1; and C. Vasseleu, Textures of Light - Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, Warwick Studies in European Philosophy (Routledge: London and New York, 1998).
11. Jay, supra n. 1, at 2.
12. Ibid., at 14. Jacques Derrida is among these theorists, although he generally rejected the normal use of critique to uncover the truth which remained hidden. He preferred the notion of 'reading'. Ibid., at 496.
13. Ibid., at 28.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., at 75.
16. C. Vasseleu, supra n. 7, at 12.
17. Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One (New York: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1993) at 26.
18. Supra n. 1, at 501.
19. Supra n. 1, at 31-32.
20. Ibid., at 25.
21. Ibid.
22. Supra n. 1, at 26.
23. Ibid., at 33.
24. Ibid., at 26.
25. Ibid., at 8 (citing Robert Rivlin and Karen Gravelle).
26. My words in square brackets.
27. Supra n. 1, at 1.
28. Ibid., at 79.
29. Ibid., at 64-65.
30. Ibid., at 6.
31. Supra n. 15, at 3.
32. Supra n. 1, at 509.
33. Helene Cixous quoted in Diana Holmes, French Women's Writing, 1848-1994 (London: Athlone Press, 1996) at 216.
34. Supra n. 1, at 493-494. This is not to say that a Derridean critique can be easily applied to gender issues, nor that Derrida himself was a supporter of feminism.
35. Tina Chanter, Ethics of Eros - Irigaray's Re-writing of the Philosophers (London & New York: Routledge, 1995) at 168.
36. Margaret Whitford, Luce Irigaray - Philosophy in The Feminine, (London & New York: Routledge, 1991) at 20.
37. Supra n. 1, at 529.
38. Ibid., at 528.
39. Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects - Embodiment and Sexual Difference In Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), at 153.
40. Supra n. 1, at 529.
41. Supra n. 1, at 224.
42. Luce Irigaray, Je, Tu, Nous - Toward a culture of difference, (London & New York: Routledge, 1993), at 32.
43. Carolyn Burke "Translation Modified, Irigaray in English", in Carolyn Burke, Naomi Schor & Margaret Whitford, Engaging with Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 249-261 at 251.
44. Supra n. 31, at 217.
45. P. Goodrich, Legal Discourse - Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis (Macmillan, 1987), at 78.
46. Supra n. 15, at 75-76.
47. Diane Chisholm "Irigaray's Hysteria" in Burke, Schor & Whitford, supra n. 41, 263-283 at 265.
48. Supra n. 15, at 75-76.
49. Ibid., at 270.
50. Ibid., at 267.
51. Carolyn Burke "Irigaray Through The Looking Glass", in Burke, Schor & Whitford, supra n. 41, 37-56 at 38.
52. Ibid., at 38. See also Julia Kristeva, New Maladies of the Soul (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
53. Supra n. 15 at 265.
54. Ibid., at 266.
55. Ibid., at 22.
56. Supra n. 15, at 26.
57. Supra n. 1, at 217.
58. Supra n. 15, at 80.
59. Ibid., at 38.
60. Ibid., at 75.
61. Supra n. 1, at 389.
62. Ibid., at 390-391.
63. Ibid., at 403.
64. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish - The Birth of The Prison (Allen Lane, 1977).
65. Supra n. 1, at 407.
66. Ibid., at 406.
67. Supra n. 15, at 78.
68. Ibid., at 73.
69. Supra n. 1, at 532.
70. Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge - Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, C. Gordon, ed. (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1980).
71. Supra n. 1, at 527.
72. Ibid., at 536.
73. Plato, The Republic, (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) at 240.
74. Plato, The Republic, 1994 at 240. Ibid.
75. Plato, The Republic, Ibid., at 241, 515c-d.
76. Plato, The Republic, Ibid., at 242, 516a.
77. Plato, The Republic, Ibid., at 243-244, 517a-b.
78. Plato, The Republic, Ibid., at 245.
79. Supra n. 1, at 26.
80. Supra n. 15, at 75.
81. Supra n. 1, at 499.
82. Supra n. 41, at 23.
83. A. Pottage, 'Recreating Difference', Law and Critique, Vol. V. no. 2 [1994] 131-147 at 131.
84. Supra n. 15, at 131.
85. Supra n. 1, at 102.
86. Supra n. 15, at 75.
87. Ibid., at 77.
88. Helene Cixous, "Sorties", in Elaine Marks & David Courtivron, New French Feminisms: An Anthology (London & New York:Routledge, 1985) at 91.
89. Supra n. 1, at 108.
90. Ibid., at 106.
91. Ibid.
92. Supra n. 15, at 134.
93. Supra n. 1, at 107.
94. Supra n. 15, at 75.
95. Supra n. 1, at 510-513.
96. Ibid., at 109.
97. Ibid.
98. Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (New York: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1993) at 307.
99. Supra n. 1, at 8.
100. Ibid., at 27.
101. Ibid., at 537.
102. Supra n. 96, at 265.
103. Ibid., at 308.
104. Supra n. 1, at 112.
105. Ibid., at 533.
106. Supra n. 15, at 75-76.
107. Supra n. 34, at 135.
108. Supra n. 1, at 5-6.
109. Ibid., at 541.
110. Supra n. 15, at 135.
111. Ibid.
112. Ibid.