Feminism - Gender Studies class notes
Waves suggest that there were academic movements that began and ended, which is only an epistemological approach to feminism We look at these theorists: Virginia Woolf (the abject, bisexual writing and deconstructing sexual difference), Simone de Bouvoir, Judith Butler (androgynous writing, the present continuum) and Marcel Proust (the narrator's gender is unknown) (also Freud, with the homopsychologicus and homophilosophicus) Interpellation, identity, subjectivity are concepts tied with theoretical movements trying to bring back focus to individuals Virginia Woolf brought focus back to women themselves- the feminine continuum, feminine tradition, alternate forms & rhythms, a journey backwards rather than forward (going back to the mothers, back to Lesbos), breaking the chronological way of understanding progress/modernity (which she saw as the patriarchal method of understanding history as linear). She studied at Oxford. a continuous present wrt time/space/writing ...