Reference:
Review Excerpts 'First I will attempt to clarify what I mean by the "anti-feminism" of contemporary French thought and, in so doing, explicate my own title.
Then I will complicate things further by outlining briefly what I see as the three major topographies of that French thought ... Ultimately, the
question I would want to put into circulation here would be this: are feminism and modernity oxymoronic in their terms and terminology?'
(561-2).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | terminology | thought | 'To designate that process, I have suggested a new name, what I hope to be a believable neologism: gynesis-- the putting into
discourse of "woman" as that process beyond the Cartesian Subject, the Dialectics of Representation, or Man's Truth. The object produced
by this process is neither a person nor a thing, but a horizon, that towards which the process is tending: a gynema. This gynema is a reading
effect, a woman-in-effect, never stable, without identity' (564).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | discourse | effect | identity |
name |
reading |
representation |
truth |
'I have tried to outline here some of the reasons why we might not want to qualify the "new directions" in contemporary French thought
as feminist and, most especially, as feminist only when and because they are being developed by women. At the same time, I feel that
French thought can be an extremely important interlocutor for what we call feminist literary criticism in the United States' (570).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | criticism | interlocutor | literary |
thought |
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