Subjectivity and sexual difference

new figures of the feminine in Irigaray and Cavarero

Diane Perpich

pp. 391-413

in: Continental Philosophy Review 36 (4), 2003.

Abstract

This paper argues that the metaphors of breath and voice as employed in the recent works of Luce Irigaray and Adriana Cavarero yield a reconceptualization of subjectivity as unique, embodied and relational. When interpreted in light of Cavarero's reorientation of the question of subjectivity from a what to a who, this newly configured notion of subjectivity can serve as the basis for a non-essentialist politics of sexual difference.

Cited authors

Irigaray Luce

Cavarero Adriana