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Article: Her odyssey, herstory in Michele Roberts's Fair Exchange.(Critical Essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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- March 22, 2003
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Lost, nostalgic, man entrusts to woman his memory; he makes woman the keeper of his house, his sex (organ), his history. [...]
Scarcely does she know herself, scarcely does she begin to glimpse nostalgia for herself--her odyssey. (Irigaray Ethics 71)
Women's time and the political implications for feminism of feminist historiography have spawned a wealth of writing in recent years. Accepting that linear time and history are inescapably patriarchal and work to exclude them has led women to attempt to rewrite history to provide the perspective that men deny. However, this rerecording and remaking of history is fraught with danger, as Linda Anderson argues: ...