Women Roles and Values
According to Luce Irigaray, this role represents “(re)productive nature,” as women are valued for bearing children and continuing family lines.
Mother
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Who is the author of The Penelopiad?
Margaret Atwood
Irigaray analyzes the role of women in society using this lens, linking the treatment of women to capitalist systems of value.
Marxist lens
Where is Luce Irigaray from?
Belgium
What woman role can be found in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose?
Prostitute - A girl from the village
Irigaray asserts that the prostitute’s nature is viewed as this, making her an object for men’s transactions.
Used up
To which authors' works does she refer in her article Women on the Market?
Jacques Lacan and Karl Marx
What is Scheherazade's value from the king’s perspective?
Providing him with compelling storytelling, bearing his children and satisfying his sexual desires
In Luce Irigaray’s framework, women are viewed as commodities in a patriarchal system. This means they are valued based on their utility to men rather than their individual identities. How does Irigaray describe the role of women in this system of value?
Women are commodities, valued for their roles in reproduction, pleasure, and exchange over their own desires.
How is she connected to Jacques Lacan apart from this article?
She was his student.
In The Penelopiad, Penelope reflects on her value being tied to her royal connection and the material wealth that comes with her marriage, rather than her own personal qualities. This mirrors Irigaray's idea that women’s value is determined by...?
External markers of wealth and male authority, like useful connections, "gold or phallus."