Maria-Milagros Rivera Garretas
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Feminine writing: a recurring phantasm, 1997, n. 36, pp. 37-49
The author wonders how and why there should be a question as to whether feminine writing exists; that it does is evident, she argues on the basis of her own experience in relations to works of art by men and by women.
"These two arts belong to different systems of signification, not to a supposedly universal neuter; systems where sexual difference, the (casual but necessary) sexual differentiation of the human body, is a relevant signifier; these arts are neither necessarily symmetrical nor asymmetrical, they are just different".
But since such a question also requires a philosophical discussion, and not simply the evidence of experience, she looks at it historically, arguing that "modern and contemporary Western culture have created the problem of feminine writing, a problem still open after five centuries".
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RIVERA GARRETAS María Milagros, Nominare il mondo al femminile,
Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1998
rev. by Michela Pereira, 1998, n. 39-40, pp. 147-150