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Gopa B. Caesar:
Critique

A.     Idealist and essentialist:  Can the body be a source of self-   knowledge?
B.     Sexuality is not an innate quality, sexuality is not a natural given, but    rather is the consequence of social interactions, among people and    among signs   
C.     Sexist ideologies
D.     What about variations in class, in race, and in culture among women?
E.      Materialist feminists’ critique
F.      Whether the assertion of a shared female nature made by féminité    can help us in feminist action toward a variety of goals
G.     Colette Guillaumin, arguing along similar lines in Questions    féministés , points out that the psychic characteristics praised by    advocates of féminité have in fact been determined by the familial    and economic roles imposed on women by men.
H.     The author’s critique
1.      It neglects differences among women
2.      Understand and respect the diversity
3.     A monolithic vision of shared female sexuality

Gopa B. Caesar:
Proposed Solutions

A.     To move outside the binary opposite
B.     Analyze the power-relationship
C.     Can the body be the source of a new discourse ,  Is it    possible to move from that state of unconscious    excitation directly to a written female text 
D.     But psychoanalytic theory and social experience    both suggest that the leap from body to language is    especially difficult for women
1.      Working against the concrete difficulties and the prejudices surrounding women's writing
2.      Indebted to the "body" of earlier women writers
3. Recognize it as a conscious response to socialiterary realities

Gopa B. Caesar:
Monique Wittig

A.     She is suspicious both of the oppositional thinking that defines woman in terms of man and of the mythical-idealist strain in certain formulations of féminité

Focus on women among themselves

Gopa B. Caesar:
Recognition

A.     The critique of phallocentrism in all the material and ideological forms it has taken

B.     The call for new representations of women's consciousness

Gopa B. Caesar:
From New Criticism to Feminism

1. autonomous self/text, universal human nature,               

Self/text—gender and sex--  determined by society and history, and more specifically, by patriarchal society.

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