hacks?

[Chris Stolz]

"Women's social inferiority is reinforced and complicated
>by the fact that woman does not have access to language, except through
>recourse to 'masculine' systems of representation which disappropriate her
>from her relation to herself and to other women.  The 'feminine' is never
>to be identified except by and for the masculine, the reciprocal
>proposition not being 'true.'" From Luce Irigiray's _This Sex Which Is Not
>One_, p. 85.      Diana
>
>

sounds like an essentialisation of women (they are X; unknown; entering into
Discourse as Y for Us) as well as of men to me...plus it sound slike we men
own language, which any French professor worth his or her salt would go to
the barricades to disprove...
chris stolz

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