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

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

- 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…

- Teresa De Lauretis

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

- 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…

- Teresa De Lauretis