late sunday night. it's not the next day until i've gone to bed.

'The history of feminist thought is a history of the refusal of the hierarchical construction of the relationship between male and female in its specific contexts and an attempt to reverse of displace its operations.' (Joan Scott 1998)

It is? OK.

French anthropologist Maurice Godelier, from same Scott article: ‘It is not sexuality which haunts society, but society which haunts the body’s sexuality. Sex-related differences between bodiesare continually summoned as testimony to social relations and phenomena that have nothing to do with sexuality. Not only as testimony to, but also testimony for – in other words, as legitimation.’



to check out:
- Mary Hill's biography of Charlotte Gilman Perkins
- at some point I suppose one will have to tackle Derrida and Lacan and the psychoanalytical people. Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray? Kristeva on Arendt.
- Kaja Silverman. A feminist film theorist who draws on Freud and Lacan.
- Gayatri Spivak *sighhh*
- Judith Butler

am going to STOP before the list gets too long.

oh but before i forget. and unrelated to feminist things. octavio paz's essays. i'm not sure about the poems. have only read a handful and -- spanish seems to lend itself to bombast, doesn't it? at least in the english translations; i'm told that neruda in spanish is very different from neruda in translation. sometimes there's a beautiful extravagance to the words and sometimes it's just extravagant. i think i prefer -- right now, anyway -- a leaner and more robust poetry.