Irigaray uses the imagery of the of the vulva. They are always in contact with each other, constantly touching without a subject/object division.
The book is a collection of essays that deconstructs the male-dominated history of Western philosophy and psychoanalysis. Irigaray argues that Western culture is "monosexual," meaning it recognizes only one sex—the male—and defines woman not as her own distinct entity, but merely as a "negative" or a lack of the male. This Sex Which Is Not One
It provided a revolutionary vocabulary for women to conceptualize their own bodies and desires outside of the male gaze. Irigaray uses the imagery of the of the vulva
