Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Description
This video essay on the philosophies underpinning Greta Gerwig's LADY BIRD (2017), THE LADY BIRD BOOK OF IRIGARAY explores - with the help of Lucy Bolton's brilliant writing on Luce Irigaray - the French feminist linguist-philosopher's notions of verticality, subjective freedom and self-determination in bringing the mother-daughter relationship to the fore. It thereby examines how Gerwig responds to Irigaray's call to re-fashion the symbolic order of patriarchy into something more overtly feminist. In conjunction with LADY BIRD: SELF-DETERMINATION FOR A NEW CENTURY published by Routledge in November 2022.