The Gendered Other of Metaphysics
The Gendered Other of Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: "In her much-quoted article "'The Blank Page' and the issues of female creativity", Susan Gubar lists numerous literary examples of traditional phallocentric metaphorics that associate the blank page with woman while conceptualising the pen writing on it as something masculine, a metaphorical penis. This sexual morphology of one's relationship to the text seems to have been a commonly held idea present from the time of the Church Fathers up until today’s feminist and deconstructive criticism."

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