{"id":1560,"date":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2004\/01\/12\/the-feminine\/"},"modified":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2004\/01\/12\/the-feminine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feminine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: Helene Cixous, simultaneous writer of fiction, philosophy, and fact, develops the idea of l\u2019ecriture feminine, \u2018feminine writing.\u2019 Against the hierarchical duality of binary oppositions (action\/passion, head\/heart, activity\/passivity), the feminine is the position of non-duality, characterised by openess to Other. Subtler than political feminism based only on gender and power, the feminine is opposed to the masculine, not the male. Cixous\u2019s notion of the feminine is not restricted to woman, although woman\u2019s feminine libidinal ecomomy does provide a propensity for the feminine. (A woman\u2019s writing can be, and indeed usually is, phallocentric; Cixous urges women to throw off this masculine paradigm and write their body). (Clarice Lispector\u2019s (left) is a supreme example, for Cixous, of a truly feminine writing). Being\/becoming: Supple, moving, chaotic-poetic, feminine writing is characterised by immediacy, it is a writing of being. Its propinquity, its earthy, erotic immanence, can equally be interpreted as becoming, always moving. Feminine writing is fully present in the moment (being), and open to the temporal flux of existence (becoming). By addressing the neglected area of feminine being (becoming?), we discover a writing characterised by giving, openness, simultaneously homogeneous and heterogeneous. Application: My dissertation in part addresses Cixous\u2019s writing (along with biblical character Salome and turn of the century socialite Alma Mahler). I argue that Cixous\u2019s feminine writing (The Book of Promethea) embodies the Nietzschien ideal of the will to power and his notion of the eternal return. In other essays, I have read Lispector from a Cixousian perspective, and looked at what Cixous\u2019s notion of feminine writing means for philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Baines, 2004, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,22,128],"tags":[414,82,76],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-413","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-cixous","tag-feminism","tag-patriarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}