One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4980671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-François Lyotard, Deborah J Clarke |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 20 |
| Pages | 9 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684634 |
| OpenAlex | W2321456257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
It may be that you are forced to be a man from the moment that you write. Maybe writing is a fact of virility. Even if you write as a woman, femininely. Perhaps what we call feminine writing is only a variation on a genre that is masculine and remains so: the essay. It is said that the femininity of writing depends on content. Writing is feminine, for example, if it operates by seduction rather than conviction. But the opposition of these two efficacies is itself probably masculine. To avoid such alternatives, you claim no assignable difference between feminine and masculine, in writing or elsewhere: but this neutralization of the question is also very suspect (as when someone says that he's not political, neither on the right nor the left; everyone knows he is on the right). It is a philosopher who is speaking here about relations between men and women. He is trying to escape what is masculine in the very posing of such a question. However, his flight and his strategies probably remain masculine. He knows that the socalled question of a masculine/feminine opposition, and probably the opposition itself, will only disappear as he stops philosophizing: for it exists as opposition only by philosophical (and political) method, that is, by the male way of thinking. In the midst of these aporias, one is tempted to give his pen over to the antonym of the inquisitive adult male, to the little girl. But it is said that, like a savage, she doesn't write. And above all, that like savages, she is herself the creation of her so-called opposite, the sober-minded male, who in reality is also her judge: a creation of the jealousy he feels for something he is forbidden to be
Political science · Sociology · History · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |