CCR 747, Spring 2013

1. Feminist Perspectives
CCR 747 ::: S13
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2. Hélène Cixous
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3. l’ecriture féminine
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4. Hélène Cixous
Luce Irigaray
Julia Kristeva
Monique Wittig
Chantal Chawaf
Catherine Clément
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6. How does this speak to
authorship and ownership?
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7. Write, let no one hold you back, let nothing stop you:
not man, not the imbecilic capitalist machinery, in which
publishing houses are the crafty, obsequious relayers of
imperatives handed down by an economy that works
against us and off our backs; and not yourself. Smug-
faced readers, managing editors, and big bosses don’t
like the true texts of women--female-sexed texts. That
kind scares them. (877)
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8. maternal body as
site of authorship
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9. authorship as connected
to bodily fluids
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10. cultural myths of
authorship as gendered
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11. • all writing, to the extent that it materializes, is
feminine
• or, inversely--but it comes to the same thing--
that the act of writing is equivalent to
masculine masturbation (and so the women
who writes cuts herself out a paper penis)
• or that writing is bisexual, hence neuter, which
again so does away with differentiation. (883)
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12. Flying is woman’s gesture--flying in language and making
it fly. We have all learned the art of flying and its
numerous techniques; for centuries we’ve been able to
possess anything only by flying: we’ve lived in flight,
stealing away, finding, when desired, narrow
passageways, hidden crossovers...
They go by, fly the coop, take pleasure in jumbling the
order of space, in disorienting it, in changing around the
furniture, dislocating things and values, breaking them all
up, emptying structures, and turning propriety upside
down. (887)
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13. Write! and your self-seeking text will know itself better
than flesh and blood, rising, insurrectionary dough
kneading itself, with sonorous, perfumed ingredients, a
lively combination of flying colors, leaves, and rivers
plunging into the sea we feed. (889)
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14. vitality of exchange
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15. ... To admit that writing is precisely working (in) the in
between, inspecting the process of the same and of the
other without which nothing can live, undoing the work
of death--to admit this is first to want the two, as well
as both, the ensemble of the one and the other, not
fixed in sequences of struggle and expulsion or some
other form of death but infinitely dynamized by an
incessant process of exchange from one subject to another.
A process of different subjects knowing one another
and beginning one another anew only from the living
boundaries of the other: a multiple and inexhaustible
course with millions of encounters and transformations
of the same into the other and into the in-between,
from which woman takes her forms ... (883, emphasis
mine)
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16. Besides, isn’t it evident that the penis gets around in my
texts, that I give it a place and appeal? Of course I do. I
want all. I want all of me with all of him. Why should I
deprive myself of a part of us? I want all of us. ... But I
do desire the other for the other, whole and entire,
male or female; because living means wanting everything
that is, everything that lives, and wanting it alive.
Castration? Let others toy with it. What’s a desire
originating from a lack? A pretty meager desire. (891)
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17. The new love dares for the other, wants the other,
makes dizzying, precipitous flights between knowledge
and invention. The woman arriving over and over again
does not stand still; she’s everywhere, she exchanges,
she is the desire-that-gives. (893)
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18. white ink
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19. Andrea Lunsford
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20. What would a feminist
approach to textual
ownership look like?
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21. ...for a (short) time it seemed to us possible that some
kind of subtle but powerful rebalancing act might be
possible: we would simply work with others to
demonstrate the degree to which all discourse is
produced socially, and growing recognition of this fact
would break the hierarchical binary so firmly
entrenched: solitary, original authorship = powerful,
privileged, and good; collaborative, shared authorship =
“uncreative,” transgressive, and bad, very nearly a
“crime” of writing. (530)
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22. Feminism and
- death of the author
- property (531)
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23. 3 ways of engagement
(533-35)
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24. authority situated in connections (539)
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