Subaltern consciousness claims fail if female subaltern consciousness is ignored.

Evidence

It seems to me that, if the question of female subaltern consciousness, whose instrumentality is so often seen to be crucial, is a red herring, the question of subaltern consciousness as such must be judged a red herring as well. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1833

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does this imply Spivak’s strategic essentialism was always internally gendered — that the ‘essentialist’ position was only ever tenable for male subalterns?
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question of collective vs individual availability of strategic essentialism, and to the sexed-subject limit of identity positions. — connects to: Subaltern consciousness is irreducible and nonoriginary, impossible to fully recover — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1751; Subaltern consciousness functions only as a theoretical fiction and never as recovered truth — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1755; The figure of woman is left unexamined by Subaltern Studies — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1818 (+1 more)