Topologies of Sexual Difference

Space in Philosophy and Visual Art After Irigaray

Louise Burchill, Rebecca Hill, James Sares (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0366-2 (ISBN)

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Brings together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analyses of Luce Irigaray's rethinking of space with respect to sexual difference and the visual arts.

A rethinking of space is central to Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. Topologies of Sexual Difference is the first edited collection to focus on this task through a sustained consideration of both Irigaray's critique of the Western tradition's systematic conflation of femininity and space and her transvaluative topological redeployment of space in theorizing sexual difference. Across thirteen chapters, Irigarayan space is thematized as porous, fluid, continuous, and self-differentiating. Contributors engage with the origins of life, affect, the aesthetics of the maternal and placental, an Irigarayan morphology inclusive of trans embodiment, and—in a rare focus—the expression of sexuate specificity in creative practice. Topologies of Sexual Difference thus demonstrates the fundamental importance of Irigaray's rethinking of space for Western philosophy and the visual arts.

Louise Burchill is an independent scholar and a former Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. Rebecca Hill is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is the author of The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson and coeditor, with Ryan S. Gustafsson and Helen Ngo, of Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism and Sexuate Difference. James Sares is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is coeditor, with Mary C. Rawlinson, of What Is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)

Introduction
Louise Burchill and Rebecca Hill

Part One: Differential Space

1. Chora Reconsidered in View of a Topology of Sexual Difference
Kristin Sampson

2. "Putting the Accent Back on Space": Irigaray's Topology, Chora, and Feminine Jouissance
Louise Burchill

3. "The Deepest and Most Initial Vital Structure Is Topological": A Feminist Philosophy of the Origins of Cellular Life with Irigaray and Simondon
Annu Dahiya

4. Carnal Being-with: Irigaray in Dialogue with Heidegger
Jennifer Carter

Part Two: Of Sensibility and the Elemental

5. Affective Poiesis: Irigaray's Elemental Ontology
Ellen Mortensen

6. To Speak of Immemorial Waters: Irigaray with Nietzsche
Rebecca Hill

7. "A Morphe in Continual Gestation": The Sensible Transcendental, Gesture, and Morphology in Irigaray
Athena V. Colman

Part Three: Feminine Genealogies

8. Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray: A Genealogy Reconsidered
Gail Schwab

9. Luce Irigaray and the Fate of Antigone: Respect for Sexuate Identity
Marguerite La Caze

10. Intertwinements of Pictorial Research and Speculative Effort: The Noetic Dance Between Barbara and Luce
Francesca Brezzi, translated by Edoardo Bellando and Tamara Lee

Part Four: Sexuate Art in the Making

11. Painterly Poetics and Difference in the Making
Jacqueline Taylor

12. Irigaray and the Baroque: Exploring Sexual Difference Through Creative Practice
Danielle Hamilton

13. The Icon and the Absent Other
Rebekah Pryor

Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Gender Theory
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0366-2 / 9798855803662
Zustand	Neuware