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14 May 2014updated 26 Sep 2015 8:46am

Jane Clare Jones on Luce Irigaray: The murder of the mother

Luce Irigaray's public image consists largely of the fact that she once said something unfathomably silly about E=mc2 being a "sexed equation". But there is far more to her than that.

By Jane Clare Jones

(Photo By Irigaray wanted to unlock the female imagination. Photo: Getty)

This piece is part of the New Statesman’s “Rereading the Second Wave” series. Read the other essays here.

 

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