Feminist Histories: Conflict, Coalitions and the Maternal Order

In this paper, I argue that the image of maternity can, paradoxically, release us from the theoretical model whereby the women’s movement is presented in terms of generation, stages or waves. Within Luce Irigaray’s account of the Maternal Order, we can find an ethics of conversation that opens a dia...

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Main Author: Renaud Beeckmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2010-01-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4088/