Sexuate Difference, Sovereignty and Colonialism: Reading Luce Irigaray with Irene Watson

Laura Roberts

doi:10.1007/s11841-022-00924-1

Sexuate Difference, Sovereignty and Colonialism: Reading Luce Irigaray with Irene Watson

Laura Roberts

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In a 1996 article exploring Irigarayan sexuate rights Gail Schwab asks a question, posed from a US perspective which seems eerily relevant today, ‘are we really now, have we ever been, a democracy?’(Schwab, 1996). I was born in a country that was not a democracy. I grew up in a country where the violent struggle for democracy engulfed us all. Two years before Gail Schwab’s paper was published, in 1994, the country transitioned to democracy, the ‘New South Africa’, ‘The Rainbow Nation’. This transition is seen largely by people outside of the country as a peaceful successful transition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	151-168
Number of pages	18
Journal	Sophia: International Journal For Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics
Volume	61
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-022-00924-1
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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Sexuate Difference
Sovereignty
Colonialism
Luce Irigaray

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