tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post7041824383489818943..comments2023-10-12T07:59:31.827-04:00Comments on Antiquitopia: Just So You Know, Women's Studies is NOT, I repeat is NOT, a ReligionJared Calawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post-73635256248275233792009-04-28T17:35:00.000-04:002009-04-28T17:35:00.000-04:00Wow. Thanks for the post and your thoughtful comm...Wow. Thanks for the post and your thoughtful comments too.<br /><br />- Reminds me of something Linda Singer includes on page 154 of <I>Erotic Welfare</I>, which Judith Butler had to edit after the author's passing away, one of my favorite quotations of Hélène Cixous, feminist, the middle of which contains "religion":<br /><br />"This opposition to woman cuts endlessly across all the oppositions that order culture. It's the classic opposition, dualist and hierarchical man/woman automatically means great/small, superior/inferior . . . means high or low, means nature/history, means transformation/inertia. In fact, every theory of culture, every theory of society, the whole conglomeration of symbolic systems — everything, that is, that's spoken, that's organized as discourse, art, religion, the family, language, everything that acts upon us--it is all ordered around hierarchical oppositions that come back to the man/woman opposition, an opposition that can only be sustained by means of a difference posed by cultural discourse as 'natural,' the difference between activity and passivity."J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com