Women’s circulation as kin tokens underwrite communal continuity while emptied of identity

Evidence

My point is, of course, that through all of these heterogeneous examples of territoriality and the communal mode of power, the figure of the woman, moving from clan to clan and family to family as daughter/sister and wife/ mother, syntaxes patriarchal continuity even as she is herself drained of proper identity. In this particular area, the continuity of community or history, for subaltern and historian alike, is produced on (I intend the copulative metaphor—philosophically and sexually) the dissimulation of her discontinuity, on the repeated emptying of her meaning as instrument. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1847 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The exchanged woman’s discontinuity is dissimulated to produce communal continuity — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1847

Related

• The exchanged woman’s discontinuity is dissimulated to produce communal continuity (similarity 0.93)

Broader Connections

• The exchanged woman’s discontinuity is dissimulated to produce communal continuity #expands (0.92) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1847