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What is the ‘woman’? Reconstruction of the Subjectivity as ‘Femininity’ in Julia Kristeva's Political thought

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2016, 14(1), pp.251~282
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Joo-Won Park 1

1영남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

As democracy is looking for conditions and motives of forming subject, citizen, through the questioning what is being citizen, to connect politics of feminism with democracy should set the reference how ‘Femininity’ as subject rises question of criticizing oppression and power of the society. This article, as a trial of setting the direction of politics of gender which represents ‘Femininity’, unlike focusing on ‘right’ of the being, different from approach of inequality and justice, post-feminism approach critically focusing on difference, and seeing the feminism as a set of social variables, tries to focus on Kristeva’s view which rises question of gender based on Marxism through reinterpreting Hegel, Lacan and Freud and how Kristeva’s view can be related with criticizing social power. In this article, ‘Femininity’ as subjectivity in Kristeva’s view is considered endless subject of practice producing new parameter over existing one as recovering and memorizing sémiotique chora which never eliminated in spite of oppression and census produced by existing order through re-questioning and be conscious of existing norm, concept, institute, and parameter of subject as being feminine. Furthermore, she tries to interpret essence of maternity and materiality of body as feminine, not fixed materiality of body nor reduced to role of specific role of gender, rather in self parameter place of representing senses and pulsion and sensitive practice in which it reproduce others and simultaneously form a new identity.

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