little-mumbles:

“Woman, if you look for her, has a strong chance of always being found in one position: in bed. In bed and asleep - “laid (out).” She is always to be found on or in a bed: Sleeping Beauty is lifted from her bed by a man because, as we all know, women don’t wake up by themselves: man has to intervene, you understand. She is lifted up by the man who will lay her in her next bed so that she may be confined to bed ever after, just as the fairytales say.”

Cixous, Helene (1981) “Castration or Decapitation”, Annette Kuhn (trans.), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 7 (1), p. 43

5:52 am  •  14 September 2009

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