IrigarayMankind

The Rights of ManMan and God at Yale

Act like a man!The History of Man

PhallocentrismPhallocratism

Imitation and Play

• Men are better than women at math.

Traffic in Women

• Bromance

Woman as commodity

Feminism: Voice

• Ecriture Feminine: a style of writing written from the feminine position, for women readers.

• Poetics of the body: feminine writing as attempt to represent the female body, experience outside of the patriarchal system of representation.

The Dinner Party

Ecriture Feminine

• Male Body: Organized, linear, teleological, forceful

• Female Body: fluid, formless, chaotic (good), collaborative

Gynocritique

• Madwoman in the attic: marginal position of women location of female authorship.

• Marginality, the “attic,” becomes a site of female resistance.

• Female Resistance: of patriarchal designations of woman’s values, lives, capacities.

• Marginal position a source of power.

Feminist Reading

• Critique of male-centered perspective• “Rip Van Winkle”: the shrew (b-tch) figure the

condition of “our” sympathy for Rip.• Townspeople assume his “henpecked status”;

text provides stand-in for readerly disapproval of the wife.

• Whatever else we are to make of the story, Dame van Winkle’s “virago” status is unassailable.

Summary

• Ecriture Feminine• Gynocriticism• Feminist Reading