SOURCE: Grosz, Elizabeth. “Feminist Futures?” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 21, no. 1 (spring 2002): 13-20.

In the following essay, Grosz explores two strands of futurist feminist criticism as expressed through the works of Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze.

A revolution in thought and ethics is needed if the work of sexual difference is to take place. We need to reinterpret everything concerning the relations between the subject and discourse, the subject and the world, the subject and the cosmic, the microcosmic and the macrocosmic. …

In order to make it possible to think through, and live, this difference, we must reconsider the whole problematic of space and time.

Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference¹

Irigaray makes it clear that feminism has just barely begun to fathom the intellectual depths of its project. To affirm in full positivity the existence and capacities of (at least) two sexes—the project of sexual...