Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. - Teresa De Lauretis
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
- Teresa De Lauretis
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early chil… - Teresa De Lauretis
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early chil…
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially be… - Teresa De Lauretis
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially be…
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. - Teresa De Lauretis
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the… - Teresa De Lauretis
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the…
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