... This phallogocentrism, or male-centered discourse, permeates every aspect of literature: vocabulary, syntax, rules of logic, and inclinations toward binary oppositions such as male/female, order/chaos, language/silence, speech/writing, 3 etc. In order for women to defeat this system of placing precedence on one entity over another (man/woman) they must "make the old single-grooved mother tongue reverberate ... place in the chain [of signifiers] that's always formed for the benefit of a privileged [masculine] signifier- (319). They must transcend the limitations that enslave them to the ...

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