The Human in Feminist Theory: Or Woman Is a Social Animal I’m Not So Sure About Man

Abstract

Offers a critical account of the place of structuralism and post-structuralism in feminist theory since the 1970s and questions the adequacy of the structuralist account of language, arguing that the hegemony of structuralism is as much a western hegemony as is the enlightenment tradition of a transcendent subject. Proposes the discovery and exploration of the female subject, based on an archeology of the feminine subject, as found in the texts that have historically been written and published by women and presents a preliminary sketch of the outcomes of such an exploration, which suggests that while many male theorists have represented man as naturally self-centered and egoistic, most women..