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Juxtaposing Cherríe Moraga'sLoving in the War Yearsand Luce Irigaray'sSpeculum of the Other Woman, I explore the ways that sex and race intersect to complicate an Irigarayan account of the relations between mother and daughter. Irigaray's work is an effective tool for understanding the disruptive and potentially healing desire between mothers and daughters, but her insistence on sex as primary difference must be challenged in order to acknowledge the intersectionality of sex and race. Working from recent work on the psychoanalysis of race, I argue that whiteness functions as a master signifier in its own right, and as a means of differentiation between the light‐skinned Moraga and her brown‐skinned mother. Irigaray's concept of blood deepens Moraga's account of her healing and subversive return to her mother. The juxtaposition of Moraga, Irigaray, and contemporary psychoanalysis of race can allow for a necessary revision of Irigaray's psychoanalysis that acknowledges the ways in which sexual difference is indexed by race and sheds new light on her account of the mother–daughter relation.

Intro -- Thinking With Irigaray -- Contents -- Introduction: The Work of Sexual Difference -- Part One: Alternatives To Masculine Genealogies -- 1. Orestes With Oedipus -- 2. Beyond The Madonna -- 3. Animality and Descent -- Part Two: Overcoming Binary Oppositions -- 4. Beyond the Vertical and the Horizontal -- 5. Space and Irigary's Theory of Sexual Difference -- 6. Can Luce Irigaray's Notion of Sexual Difference be Applied to Transsexual and Transgender Narratives? -- Part Three: The Ethical Irigaray -- 7. The Incomplete Masculine -- 8. A Bridge Between Three Forever Irreducible to Each Other(s) -- Part Four: Women and Interiority -- 9. Sexuality on the Market -- 10. Fishing and Thinking, Or an Interiority of My Own -- 11. Autonomy and Divinity -- Part Five: Women as Political Agents -- 12. Antigone Falters -- 13. Antigone's Exemplarity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.