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To be a feminist today is to be part of a contentious and creative legacy. As feminist thinkers and writers, it is important that we recognize the women who have gone before us, who have enabled our work and practice. To understand them will be, to a great extent, to understand ourselves. Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray are two French feminist theorists who have deeply shaped my feminist questioning and living even though I am half-a-world away geographically and perhaps even further removed culturally and in matters of faith. What is more, the two are themselves often understood as representing philosophical and political perspectives that are opposite one another. Despite this, my common affection for both is neither accident nor contradiction, for all three of us share passionate concern for one matter in particular: the establishment of woman’s subjectivity.
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Powell, E. (2006). In Search of Bodily Perspective: A Study of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray. In: Jule, A., Pedersen, B.T. (eds) Being Feminist, Being Christian. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983107_5
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