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WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES
experimented with the positive revaluation of those ‘negative’ qualities
traditionally associated with women (such as nature, embodiment, and
intuition). The contrast with the eternal torment of the male werewolf
is marked; as Rosi Braidotti puts it, ‘if the white, masculine, ethnocentric
subject wants to “deconstruct” himself and enter a terminal
crisis, then — so be it!; the question for feminists has been “how can
we undo a subjectivity we have not even historically been entitled to
yet?”’ 51 Here, Braidotti draws attention to the irony, for feminists,
of ‘deconstructing’ a subjectivity that has been denied to women.
Thus, while the feminist project has certainly entailed a critique of
the ‘universal’ subject of the Enlightenment, it has also involved a
constructive revisioning of subjectivity that attempts to avoid the
exclusionary tactics of self–other oppositions. The following chapter
explores how this revisioning has been elaborated through the intersection
of feminism and postmodernism, with particular reference to
the genre of fantasy.
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