Abstract
This thesis studies how Luce Irigaray’s theories of “sexual difference,” and “divinity” could offer a non-phallocentric approach to read D. H. Lawrence’s novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love and how Lawrence’s novels could liberate women from the patriarchal society and create a new revolution in man-woman relationship, namely, Lawrentian theory of “star-equilibrium.” Lawrence’s theory of star-equilibrium is a way to escape the control of the diseased intellectualism. Once people are released from the oppression of diseased intellectualism, they will find the divine in the body through which women can be emancipated from patriarchal oppression. Star-equilibrium is an exemplification of Irigarayan sexual difference in which the partners of opposite sexes can maintain a relationship of both freedom and alliance. Irigaray’s theory has caused great controversy among contemporary feminists. But what Irigaray emphasizes is the “sensible transcendental,” which contributes to women’s liberation from the repression of western patriarchal society.
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