| Luce Irigaray - Femininity (Philosophy) - 1985 - 228 pages
...initial phase, perhaps only one "path," the one historically assigned to the feminine: that of mimicry. One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. Whereas a direct feminine challenge to this condition means demanding to speak as a (masculine) "subject,"... | |
| Morwenna Griffiths, Margaret Whitford - Philosophy - 1988 - 252 pages
...women to the symbolic structures which exclude them.) Irigaray's own strategy is mimicry, or mimesis: One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...form of subordination into an affirmation, and thus begin to thwart it ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to locate the place of her... | |
| Sally Robinson - Social Science - 1991 - 262 pages
...remains elsewhere, in a kind of reversal/displacement that is politically motivated. She insists that "one must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it" (This Sex, 76). Domna Stanton questions the political efficacy of Irigaray's position here: Despite... | |
| Kaja Silverman - Masculinity - 1992 - 468 pages
...mimicry, which involves the travesty of woman's assigned role. About it, Irigaray has this to say: "One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse,... | |
| Marc Silverstein - Drama - 1993 - 196 pages
...initial phase, perhaps only one "path," the one historically assigned to the feminine: that of mimicry. One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse,... | |
| Alison Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...Only by assuming the feminine role deliberately in this initial phase, she asserts, can women begin "to convert a form of subordination into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it." Mimesis, for an astute woman, is not simply an expressive artifice: it is a survival strategy that... | |
| Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey - Art - 1994 - 468 pages
...mimicry, which involves the travesty of woman's assigned role. About it, Irigaray has this to say: "One must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse,... | |
| Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 281 pages
...knows it to be: a construct. "One must assume the feminine role deliberately," Irigaray emphasizes, "which means already to convert a form of subordination...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse,... | |
| Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano - Drama - 1994 - 338 pages
...to avoid reprisals. 9 But as Luce Irigaray has pointed out, to deliberately assume the feminine role "means already to convert a form of subordination...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it" (76). For Mary Ann Doane, masquerade is subversive because it creates distance between the female subject... | |
| Elizabeth Langland - English Fiction - 1995 - 292 pages
...effect of those scenes in which Lucilia stages her impersonation of the ingenue. Irigaray says that one "must assume the feminine role deliberately. Which...into an affirmation, and thus to begin to thwart it. ... To play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse,... | |
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