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Ecriture feminine...2nd WAVE of feminism...

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Gopa B. Caesar:
-hatred from men and archaic projection of male imaginary (woman as devouring monster threatening madness and death) has made women suffer culturally
-“This relationship with the mother needs to be brought out of silence and into representation”
-contraception and the legalization of abortion = control women’s reproduction = women’s identity as women not as mothers (role as ‘reproducer of children, as nurse, as reproducer of labour-power’)
-warns the daughters against repeating the murder of the mother.
-To move out the role of ‘guardians of the body’ for men
-To put into words and symbolic representations the primitive relation with the mothers’ body.
-Speaking about the relationships between women = create a new identity within the symbolic order

Gopa B. Caesar:
reiterated in “Women-Mothers: the Silent Substratum of the Social Order” (interview)
overlap the preoccupations of other English-speaking feminists:
1. Women and madness
2. the inadequacy or failure of the ‘sexual revolution’ from women’s point of view 
3. the importance of consciousness raising as a practice
4. the analysis of the family as a social device for appropriating women’s labour
5. the mother-daughter relationship
6. the attack on psychoanalysis (a discourse which normalize patriarchy); the re-evaluation of hysteria (as the unheard voice of the woman who can only speak through somatic symptoms)
7. Second-wave (post 1968) women (both as daughters and mothers) must liberate themselves with their mothers (p.26)

Gopa B. Caesar:
** the end of 1970—Anglo-American feminism: began to theorize women’s difference (as a source of cultural possibility rather than simply as a source of oppression).
I = examining equality, mother’s function (as the infrastructure of Western civilisation), and the obliteration of women as women.
 Speculum, 1974
Catholic countries (France and Italy) = the importance of attending to motherhood as an institution, sanctioned by the divine
“Volume with contours” (extract from Speculum)
male imaginary, philosophical logos and system (of discourse and representation… ) that confine/define women

Gopa B. Caesar:
Dominant fantasy of the mother/Male Representation of Women = a closed volume = a ‘receptacle for the (re)production of sameness’ and the ‘the support of (re)production
men’s desire = immobilize women (control and possession), appropriate by masculinity
men’s fear of the ‘open container’, the ‘incontournable volume’, the fluid, the mobile, not a solid ground/earth, or not mirror for subject
 contemporary theory in the feminine = a fresh attempt at terrorialization of the maternal-feminine
I = an other woman (exterior to all these masculine metaphorizations) = shake the foundation of patriarchy

Gopa B. Caesar:
I = oppose an ‘other woman’, a woman ‘without common measure’ (who cannot be reduced to the qualifying measurements by which she is domesticated in male systems, who exceeds attempts to pin her down and confine her within a theoretical system, whose volume is ‘incontournable’ = against Lacanian image of woman as a hole, oppose the image of contiguity of two lips (mother-daughter, mother-father, maternal-paternal genealogies) = woman’s desire could be represented for-itself (not in male representation) (p.28)

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