Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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not missing a beat. His history is his
history after all. He elaborates on his history
and gives an account of how the status of the
phallus in human
sexuality enjoins on woman a definition
in which she is simultaneously
symptom and myth. Like Foucault's
distrust of lived
experience, Lacan does not, cannot,
hear the young woman speak. The woman
does not exist. There is no
feminine symbolic.
She says, But what of those 500,000 years of
vulvas on caves and walls and stones and pot shards
What of the ancient language of the body of women
What of the body of knowledge,
the body knowledge 4 She shouts,
but no one hears her. — in my rose-wet cave,
writes Adrienne Rich. A rose is a rose
is a rose is a rose, 5
4 Marija Gimbutas. 1990. The Language of the Goddess.
5 Stein, Gertrude. 1989. Lifting Belly, Rebecca Mark (Ed.).