kMO Cixous & Butler

I never regarded feminist theory as being important to a critical media and culture major but after reading Judith Butler I see the connection. Dr. Rachel Ward somewhat discusses this topic in my communication 300 class which has helped me understand some of the more difficult concepts such as women denoting a common identity. Over the years it has become more prominent for the term woman or women to represent a “site of contest” which has led to some studies regarding name significations. I found this quote to be extremely interesting…”If one is a woman, that is surely not all one is; the term fails to be exhaustive, not because a pregnedered person transcends the specific paraphernalia of its gender, but because gender is not always constituted coherently or consistently in different historical contexts…” The political assumption that there must be a universal basis for feminism, one which must be found in an identity assumed to exist cross culturally has become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon. It would be interesting to get more in depth on this topic because as a woman I feel very uneducated. We represent an entire group which has been stereotyped for years so it would be of interest to me to find out how this affects current day mass media.