The last two or three chapters were painful to read. Irigaray has some good criticism of Hegel here and there but the antidotes proposed are more poisonous than the venom.

I knew it was going to be TERF-adjacent going in. I’d read articles from her students (some of them trans) defending her as misread, that I should read “at least two” genders where Irigaray says “two”… but this reading can’t be sustained. Not with any credulity. It breaks, shatters in a way that can’t be patched and glued back together into a more perfect unity, as in kintsugi.

A disappointment.