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CORPOREAL FEMINISM I: GENDERED SUBJECT POSITIONS AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with Foucault, Freud, Lacan, and others, [Nietzsche] assumes the corporeality of knowledge production, evaluation, and use; yet the corporeality invoked is itself not concrete or tangible, but ironically, “philosophical.”\u00a0 Once the universal is shown to be a guise for the masculine and knowledges are shown to occupy only one pole of a (sexual) spectrum instead of its entirety, the possibility of other ways of knowing and proceeding–the possibility of feminine discourses and knowledges–reveals itself.\u00a0 Only through developing alternative modes of representational and inscriptional etching of female bodies can the singular domination of the universal by the masculine be made explicit.\u00a0 Conversely, it is only through a careful reading of phallocentric texts and paradigms that the rifts, flaws, and cracks within them can be utilized to reveal spaces where these texts exceed themselves, where they say more than they mean, opening themselves up to a feminine (re-)appropriation.
\n—Elizabeth Grosz, “Bodies and Knowledges: Feminism and the Crisis of Reason,”\u00a0Space, Time, and Perversion<\/em>(37-8)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n