VYPRACOVANÉ ZÁPISKY
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they produced more food than they could consume (hard-working, cleverer than the others)
problem: how to preserve food? salting? Smoking? Or other procedures?
when they got more harvest, they wanted that the harvest goes to their children
the origin of the patriarchy according to Bachofen and Engels
if the woman moves less, there is a less chance to have sex for her
the limitation of women
patriarchy = power of a man
in Neolithic age, when patriarchy appeared, the power position changed as well as the language
humanity is identified with man and a woman is kind of in background (woman is in fact she man)
there is man like a man (male) or man representing the whole community
language is a social instrument and the language expresses the power of a man
Bachofen
Engels’ essays: The Origin of Family; Private Property and the State
Does language have gender?
in most cases the basic form of words is masculine
in order to make a feminine form we have to add suffixes or something else
example: shepherd - shepherdess, teacher – lady teacher, wolf – she wolf
Does language receive women’ experiences and man experiences equally?
sexual literature: the agent is always a man – He raped her/She was raped by him (logical subject is he)
there is no such verb that would experience the same sexual thing for women
Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson talked about necessity of feminine sentence
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they suffered that the language is not equally carrying women’ and men experience
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there is no special vocabulary for women
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in order to express what she felt as a woman she had to use tropes (metaphors)
language does not welcome the feminine experience
hence the need of a feminine language (not hierarchical, poetical, loose)
Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous supported this idea
Elaine Showalter
– gynocritics = the necessity to uncover a feminine tradition in literary history, recognize