Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic. Professor Irigaray's previous publications with Continuum include Sharing the World (2008), Conversations (2008), The Way of Love (2004), An Ethics of Sexual Difference (2004), To Speak is Never Neutral (2002), Democracy Begins Between Two (2000), To Be Two (2000), Thinking the Difference (1994) and Elemental Passions (1992).

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: The Ecstasy of the Between-Us; 2. When There Was Yet Life; 3. A Being Created Without Regard for His Being Born; 4. The Wandering of Man; 5. Between Myth and History: The Tragedy of Antigone; 6. The Return; Index.