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 fam.
Democracy begins between two.
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Feminism.
Sex role.
Women and democracy.
Women-- Political activity.
Women-- Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Democratie.
Feminism.
Feminisme.
Femmes-- Droits.
Femmes et politique.
Gelijke rechten.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Human Rights.