Teresa de Lauretis quotes

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. (Teresa de Lauretis)

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

Teresa de Lauretis

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

Teresa de Lauretis

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

Teresa de Lauretis

The hero [of a narrative] must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female....The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Female is what is not susceptible to transformation, to life or death; she (it) is an element of plot-space, a topos, a resistance, matrix and matter."

Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis

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Occupation: Italian Author
Born: November 29, 1938
Quotes count: 5
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