ENGL200A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Phallogocentrism, Logocentrism, Rationality
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Increase in recognition of women in society (though obviously not equal yet) voice, self- confidence, etc. Logocentrism increase on reliance on rationality. Phallogocentrism the idea that rationality comes from male power. Feminism is risen through modernity and then acts as a critique of modernity: facts vs. values what we consider as facts are often reflective of our social values. The concept of modernity is the concept of looking at the world from an objective eye without the influence of religion or other cultural influences begins in 1500s. Rationality vs. imagination imagination is not separate from rationality; it is an extension of rational thought. Themes transgressive desire, female power in the sexual sphere, against prevailing culture. A woman in drama, which had a strong suggestion of prostitution (which she was not involved in)
