Changing Difference
Catherine Malabou
Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD
In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman' finds herself deprived of her ‘essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: ‘woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of ‘essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine.
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In this path-breaking work Catherine Malabou begins with philosophy, asking: what is the life of a woman philosopher?
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