"(It is possible) to cast phallocentrism, phallocratism, loose from its moorings in order to return the masculine to its own language, leaving open the possibility of a different language. Which means that the masculine would no longer be 'everything'. That it could no longer, all by itself, define, circumvene, circumscribe, the properties of anything and everything. That the right to define every value - including the abusive privilege of appropriation - would no longer belong to it" Luce Irigaray The Irigaray Reader p128.
So applying this to my work on samplers Valuing Women, can be created with a wholly female language and intention, without the masculine controlling its interpretation.
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