Topologies of Sexual Difference

<p><b>Brings together wide-ranging interdisciplinary analyses of Luce Irigaray's rethinking of space with respect to sexual difference and the visual arts.</b></p><p>A rethinking of space is central to Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. <i>Topologies of Sexual Difference</i> 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. <i>Topologies of Sexual Difference</i> thus demonstrates the fundamental importance of Irigaray's rethinking of space for Western philosophy and the visual arts.</p>