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What is the title of Irigaray's 1999 book?

  • The Forgetting of Air

  • Speculum of the Other Woman

  • This Sex Which Is Not One

  • Elemental Passions

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In her 1999 book "The Forgetting of Air," Luce Irigaray explores the ways in which the patriarchal discourse has marginalized and silenced the feminine voice. She argues that the "forgetting of air" refers to the suppression of the feminine breath, which is essential for the expression of female subjectivity and desire.
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