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Part of the book: Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine

Alison Martin

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 53

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

ContemporaryFrenchPhilosophyTheologyopen

Abstract.  Irigaray defines patriarchy as a historical and masculine system devoid of value in the feminine. She treats patriarchy as a religious system in which its particular religions are merely symptomatic manifestations of this profound system of value from which the patriarchal conception of the subject ensues. This chapter aims to show that a notion of the divine as transcendent and hypostatized in the form of ‘God’ is the object of her critique of patriarchy given its structural significance to the constitution of the masculine subject she identifies in her earlier work.

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