Democracy Begins Between Two [Hardcover]

In Democracy Begins Between Two, Luce Irigaray calls for a form of specific civil rights guaranteeing women a separate civil identity of their own equivalent to-though not simply the same as-that enjoyed by men.Luce Irigaray is a leading philosopher and feminist thinker, best known for Speculum of the Other Woman (1990) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1990). She is author of I Love to You (1994), To Be Two (2000), Elemental Passions (1992) and Je, Tu, Nous (1992), all published by Routledge.Translator's Note; List of Acronyms; Introduction; I Want Love, Not War; Feminine Identity: Biology or Social Conditioning?; Women's Enslavement; How to Manage the Transition from Natural to Civil Coexistence; Towards a Citizenship of the European Union; Refounding the Family on a Civil Basis; Democracy is Love; The Question of the Other; A Two-Subject Culture; Ten Suggestions for the Construction of the European Union; Politics and Happiness; The Representation of Women; Europe Captivated by New Myths; Appendix; Notes; IndexUS? The Athlone Press 2000