ABSTRACT
Surveying the extensive field of Irigaray commentary, Pheng Cheah and Elizabeth Grosz recently noted that, while she is ‘probably the only living feminist philosopher today who has articulated an elaborate program for concrete sociocultural, legal and political transformation’, Irigaray’s ‘contributions to political theory have largely been overlooked’.4 Few commentators have considered Irigaray’s place in the context of political philosophy, historical and contemporary, although some indications of how Irigaray might be so situated have been offered in the work of Iris Young,5 Nicola Lacey,6 Drucilla Cornell7 and Nicole Fermon,8 amongst others.
