I found several interesting things about this reading that I had never thought of before. One such thing is how the author, Kristeva, associated feminine writing with the female body. She then goes on to say that when women write, it also gives them more sexual freedom.
I also thought the part where it shows the terms father/mother, active/passive, masculine/feminism, sun/moon, head/heart, son/daughter, intelligent/sensitive, brother/sister, form/matter, phallus/vagina and reason/emotion. Some of these are kind of obvious, but I had not heard of others. I did not know that the sun and moon were related to this so that was pretty cool. The form and matter relation didn’t really make sense to me though.
About the language in that portion of the text, it really bothered me that it did not delve further into what female language actually was. There were references to what male terms were as defined as what female terms were, like you stated, but it does not fully explain the differences between the two. (Excluding reoccurance of themes.)
ReplyDeleteFor me, on looking at two text without knowing the author I still would not be able to define male from female text.