The idealized feminine sign masks a real tyranny of property and propriety.
Evidence
Suffice it to say here that, in thus differentiating himself from the phallocentric tradition under the aegis of a(n idealized) woman who is the “sign” of the indeterminate, of that which has impropriety as its property, Derrida cannot think that the sign “woman” is indeterminate by virtue of its access to the tyranny of the text of the proper. It is this tyranny of the “proper”— in the sense of that which produces both property and proper names of the patronymic—that I have called the suppression of the clitoris, and that the news item about Control Data illustrates. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 551
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Feminine charm is a constructed mirage, not a genuine value worth oppression — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1980; Asserting a feminine Other structurally produces Manichaean moral systems hostile to woman. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 169; Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352
Broader Connections
- Feminine charm is a constructed mirage, not a genuine value worth oppression
#corroborates(0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1980 - Asserting a feminine Other structurally produces Manichaean moral systems hostile to woman.
#expands(0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 169 - Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them.
#expands(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352