Speaking beyond Patriarchy - Shirley Foster - p66-7.
Helene Cixous wrote about the gender binary, where what was defined as female was:
Female
Negative
Inactive
Passive, conceiving, supporting , containing
Conceptual scheme that privileges the male.
Women are deemed to be non-social, non-political, non-human. Half of the living structure. Fate as loss, burial, and relegation thrown on them by patriarchy. Woman as nobody, reduced to other.
Women linguistically marginalised. Need to create a language for woman - somewhere other than silence, the place reserved for her in and through the symbolic.
Xaviere Gauthier - a woman's voice is heard through the blanks, gaps, spaces, silences and fragmentation.
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