Download or read book Speculum of the Other Woman written by Luce Irigaray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.