Luce Irigaray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Luce Irigaray

French feminist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1930

Place of Birth: Blaton, Wallonia, Belgium

Profession: university teacher, psychoanalyst, philosopher, linguist, feminist

Nationality: Belgium, France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.
Irigaray's first and most well known book, published in 1974, was Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), which analyzes the texts of Freud, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant through the lens of phallocentrism.
Irigaray is the author of works analyzing many thinkers, including This Sex Which Is Not One (1977) which discusses Lacan's work as well as the political economy, Elemental Passions (1982) can be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible, and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (1999) in which Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air.Irigaray is known for the employment of three different modes in her investigations into the nature of gender, language, and identity, they are the analytic, the essayistic, and the lyrical poetic.
Presently, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.