Luce Irigaray

[Leanne]

I love you Edward!

While the redoubtable Ms Irigaray has given us some quite interesting theories, I tend to find her actual writing very dense and pretentious. Quite aggressively "look at me, I'm an intellectual woman". Now, the time she was writing in might have demanded such an attitude in order for her to be noticed. Personally I find her pigeonholing of women who choose to stay at home with their families as weak and passive to be highly offensive, since I was under the impression that the point of feminism was to give us just that: choice. Then again, I'm not much impressed by Richard Dawkins either -- and I do love Foucault

Of course cultural theorists should not muck about with science. But then, Richard Dawkins is a scientist mucking about with cultural theory.