The Marxist plight of women.
Irigaray invokes Marxist themes in these writings, describing women as a proletariat or slave class, with the implications that a revolution must come for women to be viewed as equals.
Women are dehumanized by misogynistic cultural assumptions.
Although many people of her time were highly resistant to her feminist claims, Irigaray maintained that the systems that were commonly accepted by the public as "normal" were misogynistic and wrong, and that nothing could be done until people accepted their implicit bias against women.
The lives of women are commodified by men and traded as an economy.
Instead of allowing women to be participants in the market, Irigaray sees women as the victims of a secret slave trade, where women are auctioned to new families like property without respect as their own people.
