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Democracy Begins Between Two

By: Luce Irigaray

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Paperback | 1 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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In "Democracy Begins with Two" Luce Irigaray calls for a radical reconsideration of the so-called democratic bases of Western culture. In a series of essays covering the earlier 1990s she argues the urgent need for our society to grant full recognition to both the genders which contribute to its functioning. If we are to look on ourselves as fully democratic this recognition must take the 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. Ranging across topics as diverse as happiness, the family, the construction of the European Union, the transition from natural to civil existence and love, Irigaray exploits her resources as a writer - philosophical, linguistic, psychoanalytical, poetical -to their rhetorical limits. She interweaves her personal experience of an emotional and politico-professional partnership with her re-reading of History, past and present.

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Translator's Note
List of Acronyms
Introduction	p. 1
I Want Love, Not War	p. 21
Feminine Identity: Biology or Social Conditioning?	p. 30
Women's Enslavement	p. 40
How To Manage the Transition from Natural to Civil Coexistence?	p. 49
Towards a Citizenship of the European Union	p. 60
Refounding the Family on a Civil Basis	p. 95
Democracy is Love	p. 106
The Question of the Other	p. 121
A Two-Subject Culture	p. 142
Ten Suggestions for the Construction of the European Union	p. 156
Politics and Happiness	p. 165
The Representation of Women	p. 174
Europe Captivated by New Myths	p. 185
Appendix	p. 191
Notes	p. 216
Index	p. 217
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