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Gopa B. Caesar:
I.        French Feminism
A.     Common agreement between French feminists
1.      Western thought has been based on a systematic repression of women's experience.
B.     Comparison
1.      Opposes on masculinist thinking
2.      Western culture as fundamentally oppressive, and phallogocentric
3.      Men objectifies the world through Symbolic discourse
4.      Resistance does take place in the form of jouissance
5.      Oppose women's bodily experience to the phallic-symbolic patterns embedded in Western thought

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Gopa B. Caesar:
Contrasts

1.      Kristeva:
2.      Irigaray + Cixous:
a.      Women have been prevented from expressing their sexuality in itself
b.      Women must begin with their sexuality, bodies
c.      Speak in the new languages it calls for, they will establish a point of view (a site of différence)

Gopa B. Caesar:
A.     Julia Kristeva

1.      Finds in psychoanalysis the concept of the bodily drives that survive cultural pressure in semiotic discourse (the gestural, rhythmic, language)
2.      Women, speak and write as hysterics
3.      Semiotic style: repetitive, spasmodic, separations
4.      Women should persist in challenging the discourses that stand
5.      The word “woman" represents as an attitude, men also have access to the jouissance (the emergence of bodily drive) that opposes phallogocentrism

Gopa B. Caesar:
Luce Irigaray


1.      Women is different from men
2.      A world structured by man-centered
a.      Women has no way of knowing or  representing themselves
b.      Women’s bodies and sexual pleasure    have been absent or misrepresented in male discourse.
3.      A diffuse sexuality arising: two lips of the vulva, multiplicity of libidinal energies.
4.      Female sexuality v.s logic and language
5.      Women must recognize and assert their jouissance

Gopa B. Caesar:
Hé1ène Cixous

1.      Women’s unconscious is totally different from men's
2.      Level of sexual pleasure is different
3.       The Laugh of the Medusa

a.      Female sexuality is superior to phallic single mindedness
b.      Masculine is inscribed within boundaries
c.      Her libido is cosmic, just as her unconscious, is worldwide

4.      Link women's diffuse sexuality to women's language-   written language
5.      Insists on the primacy of multiple, specifically female    libidinal impulses in women's unconscious

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