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Article: Neitzsche's Women: Beyond the Whip.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 1999
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Nietzsche's Women: Beyond the Whip. By CAROL DIETHE. (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, 31) Berlin: de Gruyter. 1996. xiv + 177 pp. DM 120.
Repudiating the Derridean tendency to make 'woman' a mere trope in discussing Nietzsche, Carol Diethe here examines the actual women whom Nietzsche knew and the later generation of avant-garde female artists and feminists who, by selective reading, absorbed his emancipatory message while ignoring his conviction that women should remain in the domestic sphere. The result is a somewhat headlong but refreshing and highly informative survey of the contradictions within Nietzsche, Nietzscheanism, and feminism at the end ...