The Sense of the Feminine: On Wonder and Sexual Difference

Authors

  • Catherine Malabou Université Paris X-Nanterre

Keywords:

feminine, gender, sexual difference, wonder, Irigaray, Derrida, Levinas

Abstract

This article exposes a series of questions which pose the framework and the extent of what is understood as the feminine, as well as its role as regards sexual difference and gender, dissociating it from women. By means of a review through the thought of different authors who have worked on the concept of the feminine, such as Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and Irigaray, it analyzes the concept of Cartesian wonder as advent of the other. The feminine admits, moreover, the body of women and its multiple sexuality contained in its multiple lips, according to the image used by Irigaray, on its way toward a metabolic and passing identity.

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Published

2010-10-14

Issue

No. 15 (2009): Mujeres y naciones

Section

Miscellaneous

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