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Irigaray covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis, and literature, such as: the continued neglect by psychoanalysts of the sexual and gender dimensions of therapy, the urgency of female divinity for contemporary feminist movements, and a reconsideration of women's relation to the market economy. Sexes and Genealogies also includes Irigaray's dazzling reading of the Oresteia, "Body Against Body: In Relation to the Mother," now acknowledged as a feminist classic.

About the Author

Luce Irigaray is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Her books in English include Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which is Not One, and Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche.