Speculum of the Other Woman Sarah Cottingham Part natural history

Part natural history

Photographs throughout

and a collection of silences

To be a teacher and teaching children and youngsters is still a wonderful profession: it never gets dull or boring

Speculum of the Other Woman Sarah Cottingham Part natural historySpeculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, "The Blind Spot of an Old