As you pointed out, a woman who is not actively heterosexual is still oppressed AS A WOMAN. For many others it means someone who fights for woman and her defense– for the myth, then, and its reinforcement. (i.e. Shulamith Firestone and Marge Piercy have immortalised this whole idea in their writings, in saying that the only way women-as-a-class can be “free”, or “equal” or “human”, is to lose the biology altogether, and be biologically reconstructed somehow, eg using extra-uterine artifical reproductive technologies. It was interesting how you both interpreted her. But to become a class we do not have to suppress our individual selves, and since no individual can be reduced to her/his oppression we are also confronted with the historical necessity of constituting ourselves as the individual subjects of our history as well. But what we believe to be a physical and direct perception is only a sophisticated and mythic construction, an “imaginary formation,” which reinterprets physical features (in themselves as neutral as any others but marked by the social system) through the network of relationships in which they are perceived. Here’s another one criticizing the idea that female oppression could be related to anything BUT human constructs that must be destroyed: …there are lesbians who affirm that “women and men are different species or races (the words are used interchangeably): men are biologically inferior to women; male violence is a biological inevitability…” By doing this, by admitting that there is a “natural” division between women and men, we naturalize history, we assume that “men” and “women” have always existed and will always exist. By reconceptualizing sex from a natural grouping into a relationship to the systemic oppression of women, Wittig displays the gender categories as class divisions. The ambiguity of the term “feminist” sums up the whole situation. In this essay, Wittig begins to refer to this belief in natural differences as the ideology of sexual difference. Noooooo!!! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself. © FII Media Private Limited | All rights reserved. Thus a lesbian has to be something else, a not-woman, a not-man, a product of society, not a product of nature, for there is no nature in society. A materialist feminist approach to women’s oppression destroys the idea that women are a “natural group”: “a racial group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies.” What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a “natural group.” A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one and shows that we have been ideologically rebuilt into a “natural group.” In the case of women, ideology goes far since our bodies as well as our minds are the product of this manipulation. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Also read: A Brief Summary Of The Second Wave Of Feminism. The essay begins with “A materialist feminist approach to women’s oppression destroys the idea that women are a ‘natural group’: a racial group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies.” Wittig tries to highlight the importance of questioning and deconstructing the concept and origin of womanhood using a material perspective. Obviously, it is a critical diff. I completely agree, Mary. (They are seen as black therefore they are black; they are seen as women, therefore, they are women. It puts us in a position of fighting within the class “women” not as the other classes do, for the disappearance of our class, but for the defense of “woman” and its reinforcement.

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