It bridges the gap between psychoanalysis, structuralism, and radical feminism.
Modern queer and trans theorists sometimes find her strict binary focus on male and female anatomy to be restrictive and exclusionary. This Sex Which Is Not One
Some critics argue that by focusing so heavily on the biological metaphor of the "two lips," Irigaray reduces womanhood to biology. This exchange establishes and maintains the social bonds
This exchange establishes and maintains the social bonds between men, a system she calls "hommo-sexuality" (a play on the French word for man, homme ), meaning a monopoly of the same. ⚡ Style and Method: "Écriture Féminine" Women are viewed as the "not-male
Irigaray builds upon and critiques Jacques Derrida's concept of phallogocentrism (the prioritization of the masculine phallus and the spoken word/logic). She argues that the entire history of Western thought is built on a masculine subject. Women are viewed as the "not-male."
Female sexuality is viewed as an incomplete version of male sexuality.