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The Irigaray Reader Lynn Tzeng Introduction to Section I (by Margaret Whitford) Patriarchy (defined by Irigaray)—“an exclusive respect for the genealogy of sons and fathers, and the competition between brothers” (Sexes et parentes, p.202) maternal genealogy absent in western thought and institutions coexistence of two genealogies (patriarchy and matriarchy), not simply a reversal or a replacement (p. 23) “[W]hereas de Beauvoir emphasizes access to the world of men (equality), Irigaray is suggesting the creation of difference” (p.24). develops de Beauvoir’s idea of Woman as Other (I: the ‘other of the same’, the necessary negative of the male subject, all that he has repressed and disavowed.) “but a self-defined woman who would not be satisfied with sameness, but whose otherness and difference would be given social and symbolic representation. Each sex would then be ‘other’ for the other sex” (p. 24-25). “Equal or Different?” (1986; 1988; 1990) ? “The Bodily Encounter with the Mother” (conference on “Women and Madness”, Montreal, 1981)— “western culture is founded not on parricide (as Freud hypothesized in Totem and Taboo, but on matricide” (p.25). I’s reinterpretation of the mythology (Clytemnestra) = the installation of patriarchy, built over the sacrifice of the mother and her daughters. “The major cultural taboo is on the relationship with the mother” (p.25). “The stress on Oedipus, on castration, serves to conceal another severance, the cutting of the umbilical cord to the mother” hatred from men and archaic projection of male imaginary (woman as devouring monster threatening madness and death) has made women suffer culturally “This relationship with the mother needs to be brought out of silence and into representation” contraception and the legalization of abortion = control women’s reproduction = women’s identity as women not as mothers (role as ‘reproducer of children, as nurse, as reproducer of labour-power’) warns the daughters against re