The Lacanian Perspective on Women

For Irigre, she celebrates Beauvoir to some extent, but then says that by framing it as such, it is to suggest that women are just kind of helpless beings cast into this domain. So whereas for Beauvoir, women can actually challenge the system by recognizing their place within it. By positing the possibility for this pre-gendered being, she is essentially framing the possibility of resistance as being almost too possible for Irigre. And we'll get into that more in the next section.