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Article: Undoing the double tress: Scotland, early modern women's writing, and the location of critical desires.
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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"[W]omen more often than men-they are immediately asked in whose name and from what theoretical standpoint they are speaking, who is their master, and where they are coming from: they have, in short, to salute ... and show their identity papers."
--Helene Cixous, "Castration of Decapitation?"
If one of the canonical intentions of feminist literary criticism is to tender articulate the silences of artistic and intellectual histories, to be "alert to the omissions, gaps, partial truths, and contradictions which ideology masks," then the relative invisibility of early modern Scottish women's writing and of feminist scholarship within the early modern ...