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she ends with the way in which women’ professors are representing at university
and how women’ issues are taking into consideration (maternal problem: you have a child and it needs to
be fed, so you have to go at certain time to feed it)
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solution: interruption of the studies or having a family member who will help with the child
3. HÉLÈNE CIOUX
Jewish-French writer from Algeria
born in Algeria when it was a French colony
when Algeria became independent, many French people returned back to France although they had been living
in Algeria for a long time (she was among those people who left to France)
she tries to make the language more welcoming from the feminist point of view
essay: The Laugh of Medusa (1976)
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myth: Medusa is a moral monster with snakes instead of hair who turns men, who dare to look upon her,
into stone. She was a threat to a man that he is not able to prove himself as a man to a woman
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if he dares to look at Medusa (woman), he can have sex
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metaphor: he doesn’t turn into a stone but his penis does
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in order to look at Medusa, the shield has to be used (theories, fears, laws)
4. MONIQUE WITTIG
Jewish-French-American origin
born in France as a Jewish woman and then she moved to the USA
professor at the University in Arizona
essay: Straight Mind
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she uses Marxist theory and applies it on the situation of women
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she makes a comparison between a woman and proletariat
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proletariat = people who have to sell their skill for salary and with the salary they can survive
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she considers women as a social class = women are subordinate to men, they are dependent on them
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problem: there are both poorer and rich women who are not dependant; lesbians aren’t dependant on men
she tried to practise female talk (female language) because language is not fair