ENG 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Friedrich Nietzsche, Eternal Feminine, Roland Barthes
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[note: in the interest of time, and of getting at least a little sleep, i am not updating the following discussion to reflect the fact that we did read from virginia woolf"s a room of one"s own this semester. But it"s pretty meaty as it is, too; the discussion ends up touching on woolf and issues i raised when we discussed woolf, so it still works. ] This statement has become a regular refrain in this course: once again we are reading a tiny sliver from a crucially important and voluminous work. I"ll bring in my copy of the second sex to demonstrate this point visually. We"re reading a few meager pages of it. Worse than that, i am forced to rely on. Beauvoir alone as our sole articulation of feminist theory, something you could actually major in and spend years studying. Alas, our time is limited, so here goes:
