Between Her and Her
Place and Relations between Women
in Irigaray and Wright
REBECCA HILL
Only heaven knows, there were millions of people throughout the
world who either ofered pigs as sacrifces to their Gods, or fowers,
or the frst grain of the new season’s crop. Tere were even others who
ofered up their own people to the Gods. Now the day had come
when modern man had become the face of the God, and he simply
sacrifced the whole Earth.
—Wright 2013, 12
I started to learn that protecting and valuing the earth’s ingenious sys-
tems of reproducing life and the fertility of all of its inhabitants may
lie at the center of the shift in worldview that must take place if we
are to move beyond extractivism. A worldview based on regeneration
and renewal rather than domination and depletion.
—Klein 2014, 424
Can a society live without sacrifces, without aggression? Perhaps, if it
obeys the moment of cosmic temporality. Te sacrifcial order overlays
the natural rhythms with a diferent and cumulative temporality that
dispenses and prevents us from attending to the moment. Once this
occurs imprecisions multiply and grow. A catharsis becomes necessary.
—Irigaray 1993b, 77
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