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This Sex Which Is Not One
Explore Irigaray's account of female sexuality and its philosophical implications.
“Woman's desire would not be expected to speak the same language as man's. Woman's desire is likely to be experienced as power, indeed as the power of the Other, or as omnipotent. It is also likely to be recognized as a desire without 'object,' or as a desire for a different 'Other,' or as a desire for sameness, or as a desire for something not yet named in the dominant discourse... Her sexuality is not one, in the sense that it cannot be reduced to a single model, a single form of pleasure, a single 'sex.' It is plural, diffuse, 'not one', and this very characteristic has been used to dismiss her. — Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One (1977), trans. Catherine Porter”