Feminism 4课件.ppt

Feminism 4 Review, Examples Conclusion 精品文档 Outline Feminist Literary/Critical Strategies in Brief French Feminism; examples Radical Feminism: Some Issues Postmodern Feminism and Gay and Lesbian Studies: Some Issues Feminisms in Taiwan Conclusion 精品文档 Feminist Literary/Critical strategies Open accusation; social activism, (e.g. B. Kruger Separatism: critique of patriarchy (its sexual/textual politics), discover/focus on women’s writings (gynocriticism), lesbianism (Woman-Identified Woman) Celebrating Female Sexuality and Feminine Writing: French Feminists,夏宇, 安卓珍妮 Empower female characters(Granny W); Discuss women’s issues (e.g. housekeeping, body, etc.) ; Atwood; Plath and Virginia Woolf Revising tradition: e.g. fairy tales; 夏宇; Atwood Mimicry; Parody; conscious use of dual language (e.g. Cindy Sherman) Compromise: domestication of female desire 精品文档 French: Feminine écriture Female Body feminine writing Against the psychoanalysts’ emphasis on Oedipus complex and the Father. Against the fixity of male writing and systems of thoughts (e.g. linear logic) Cixous: phallogocentrism writing from the body; write in white ink; in the Realm of the Gift vs. the Realm of the Proper (property-- appropriate--the fear of castration) 精品文档 Irigaray: This Sex Which is not one autoeroticism; plural sexuality; an alternate discourse that is multiple, fluid, and heterogeneous, feminine style: mimicry; self-touching and self-affection – autoeroticism in writing 精品文档 Irigaray: Mimicry + Parody e.g. Sylvia Sleigh, The Turkish Bath, 1973 精品文档 Kristeva: the semiotic Emphasize the “pre-Symbolic” (or the languages before social language); The semiotic: its utterance is a flow or rhythm instead of an ordered statement; expression is fluid like the free-floating sea of a womb or the milk of the breast. 精品文档 Kristeva: the semiotic e.g. 1 Black Iris III, 1926 精品文档 Kristeva: the semiotic e.g. 2 Cunt as Temple, Tomb, Cave or Flower, 1974 Judy Chicago