Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Is There Such a Thing as “Woman Writing”? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience

Gambaudo, Sylvie

Is There Such a Thing as “Woman Writing”? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience Thumbnail


Authors

Sylvie Gambaudo



Abstract

The article revisits the idea that writing may be gendered and asks whether we can define what a “woman writing” practice might be. We do this through a comparative study of the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler. Both have expressed reservations about, even objected to, the essentializing of gender and therefore of writing as a woman. They have, however, provided us with useful tools to define what a non-essentialist understanding of “woman” might entail. The article proposes to do three things: first, to look at the way each author presents “woman” and what I term “woman writing” in their work; second, to find, beyond epistemic differences, the common grounds shared by the two authors; and third, to clarify the places where the two disagree. In a concluding part, we will highlight how that disagreement is reconciled in revisiting Kristeva’s and Butler’s use of loss in their apprehension of “woman,” allowing us to formulate a non-essentialist definition of “woman writing.”

Citation

Gambaudo, S. (2017). Is There Such a Thing as “Woman Writing”? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 22(1), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2017.1285605

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 8, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 17, 2017
Publication Date Mar 17, 2017
Deposit Date Jan 18, 2017
Publicly Available Date Sep 17, 2018
Journal Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
Print ISSN 0969-725X
Electronic ISSN 1469-2899
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 22
Issue 1
Pages 23-33
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2017.1285605
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1396385

Files





You might also like



Downloadable Citations