Archaeologies and utopias

The predominance of patriarchally-based structures in Kristeva's work sets up an uncomfortable dichotomy for feminist critics. Her 1979 essay `Le temps des femmes' (translated as `Women's Time' in 1981) most explicitly articulates her own approach to feminism, addressing women's troubled relationship to patriarchy in terms of time and space. Kristeva identifies three distinct positions in feminist thought: `equality', `difference' and an anticipated `third generation' feminism that integrates the previous two attitudes, representing what she defines as a new `signifying space'. The value of the `third space' is that it offers a method for proceeding beyond the either/or status offered by previous stages of feminist thought and analysis, challenging gender identity per se and bringing out the singularity of each individual subject. I explore ways of reading from the third space through examples of the `Cassandra' myth and H.D.'s epic poem Helen in Egypt (1974) , looking specifically at women's relationship to patriarchal language

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• Otherness ‘without ostracism or levelling’

  Sonja Arndt•Educational Philosophy and Theory•2015

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• Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures

  Lynne Huffer•Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures•1998

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• Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures

  Victoria Best, Lynne Huffer•The Modern Language Review•2000

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• Sexual / Textual Politics

  Jane Marie Todd, Toril Moi•Comparative Literature•1987

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• The Gothic Body

  Open Access•Kelly Hurley•Gothic Body•1996

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• H. D. and Freud

  Ann Ardis, Ann L Ardis et al.•Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature•1993

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• Feminism and Deconstruction

  Shelly Gregory, Shelly A Gregory et al.•Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature•1996

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• Impertinent Voices

  Karen Kaivola, Liz Yorke•Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature•1997

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• Penelope's Web

  Robert O'Brien Hokanson, Susan Stanford Friedman•American Literature•1992

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• Cassandra

  Edith Waldstein, Christa Wolf et al.•The German Quarterly•1986

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• Modernism, History and the First World War

  Damon Franke, Trudi Tate•SubStance•2000

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• Women and the word

  Jeannette King•Journal of Gender Studies•1994

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• No Man's Land

  Ransom J Arthur, Eric J Leed•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1982

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• Women's Time

  Julia Kristeva, Alice Jardine et al.•Signs: Journal of Women in…•1981

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• History, Critical Theory, and Women's Social Practices

  Thomas Foster•Signs: Journal of Women in…•1988

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