إعادة كتابة الجنس: مخاوف أدريان ريتش النسوية

Abstract

This paper aims at considering and tackling Adrienne's Rich's Feminist Concerns. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the beginning of the organized movement known as feminism, which sought to end men's oppression of women. Critic Karen Offen points out that it wasn't until the 1880s that the term "feminism" started to be widely used in Europe as a synonym for women's emancipation. It was, the supporter of women's suffrage. Hubert Auclert, who coined the term "feminist," first used it in her 1882 publication of La Citoyenne (1982) and Eugenie Potonie-Pierre and the feminist organization Solidarite held a "feminist Congress" in Paris in May 1882. According to Rich, women struggle to communicate their sentiments of helplessness as their identities as mothers are destroyed by patriarchy. They can only watch what is occurring to themselves like mute onlookers because they are torn apart into their own components and pitted against them. They are unable to declare, "These are my children, and I will keep them." As soon as a woman becomes aware that a kid is developing inside of her, she bows to it and adopts the patriarchal script. She gives in to the influence of theories, ideals, archetypes, and descriptions of her new existence, despite the fact that none of these things were created by other women and have all been secretly circling about her ever since she first became aware of herself to be female and so capable of giving birth. Women are urged by Rich to consider what, out of all that welter of image-making and thought spinning, is worth salvaging, if only to grasp better a notion so fundamental in history, a condition that has been taken from the mothers themselves to reinforce the power of the dads.