(...) yet they also formed strong and sometimes romantic friendships with other girls and sustained these intimate friendships with women throughout their lives. In their relationships with men, they consciously sought male doubles, or twins, with whom they could form an intellectual, political or professional partnership. Sometimes these partnerships were unequal. Toril Moi sees in Simone de Beauvoir's career the classic dilemma "of the intellectual woman's relationship to love." Because "thinking women have worried about their capacity to inspire love," Toril Moi writes, they are vulnerable to forming intense "erotico-theoretical transference relations" with their male mentors, who they hope will appreciate both their minds and their bodies. The strongest of the women moved beyond this dependence. /// Inventing herself, by Elaine Showalter |
l'immédiate
toujours
le splendide garçon aux yeux sirènes, le dos adossé au
mur très
tranquillement, je le regarde, je le désire,
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samedi 10 février 2007 |