Abstract
This study proposes to evaluate the efficacy of feminist criticism since it established its original programme in resistance to a critical and canonical tradition ruled by phallic « universals ». Whilst my reading recognizes the incisiveness of the new tools, especially in the concept of « gender », it regrets the loss of critical power resulting from a textual practice based around what has to appear as a reactionary, reflectionist and subjectivist aesthetics. Relying on a set of myths (feminist Fables, mother-theories, mother-texts), it inverts, therefore fails to subvert, the fundamental tropes of patriarchal discourse.
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