Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, And The Body - Plot & Excerpts
Gender, she argued, is so thoroughly fragmented by race, class, historical particularity, and individual difference as to be useless as an analytical category. The "bonds of womanhood," she insisted, are a feminist fantasy, born out of the ethnocentrism of white, middleclass academics.<><><><><><><><><><><><>A central point of a book by a feminist philosopher is the refutation of all feminist attempts to articulate a sense in which the history of philosophy reveals distinctively "male" perspectives on reality. All such attempts, the author argues, "do violence" to the history of philosophy and "injustice" to the "extremely variegated nature" of male experience. Indeed, any attempt to ''cut" reality and perspective along gender lines is methodologically flawed and essentializing. 1<><><><><><><><><><><><>For some feminist literary theorists, gender has become a discursive formation, inherently unstable and continually selfdeconstructing.
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