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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.  It has been my aim in this study to show that Irigaray’s claim that a female divine is necessary if women are to become subjects poses numerous complex and interesting intellectual challenges. Hence, I have read her philosophy of sexual difference through the question of the divine. I have attempted to demonstrate the significance of the divine for any understanding of her thought and its relevance at each stage of her work. In the process I have put forward a reading of Irigaray as a universalist thinker who desires to bring about an era of sexual difference structured by two sexed divines, the feminine and the masculine. While not refuting her philosophy of sexual difference, I have criticized the feasibility of its realization through universalist divines.

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