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Why do ecriture femenine?
Woman must write herself: must write women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies
What is it?
There is such a thing as marked writing.
Why must it defy grammar?
Writing has been run by a a libidinal and cultural, typically masculine, economy
Do women currently write this way?
Female writers (...) whose workmanship is in no way different from male writing. Obscures women, reproduces the classic representations of women
Deconstructing and regendering language
Bisexual hence neuter vs Nonexclusion either of the difference or of one sex
Phallic symbolism
Man has been (...) reduced to a single idol with clay balls (...) and consumed (...) by a fear of being a woman!
Are women contained by symbolism
NO, their marginalisation gives them freedom. "Though masculine sexuality gravitates around the penis (...) woman does not bring about the same regionalisation"
Othering of women
They riveted us between two horrifying myths: the medusa and the abyss
How language can free women
If woman has always functioned "within" the discourse of man (...), it is time for her to dislocate this "within"
Voler
Voler is women's gesture: voler in language and making it [fly/steal]
Muting of woman's voice
Her words almost always fall upon the deaf male ear, which hear in language only that which speaks in the masculine
Role of men in ecriture femenine
It's up to [man] to decide where his masculinity and femininity are at
How does ecriture femenine relate to the body
This practice, extraordinarily rich and inventive, as in particular concerns masturbation
Castration anxiety
But isn't this fear convenient to them?
Poetic conventions
Such a woman a poet could only desire by breaking the codes that negate her
Othering of women as a continent
- the dark continent
- monuments to Lack
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