Elaine Showalter

Just wanted to share something I read in her piece"Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness": Page 361

 "But scholars who want a women's language that is intellectual and theoretical, that works inside the academy, are faced with what seems like an impossible paradox, as Xaviere Gauthier has lamented: "As long as women remain silent, they will be outside the historical process. But, if they begin to speak and write as men do, they will enter history subdued and alienated; it is a history that, logically speaking, their speech should disrupt""

 

The point Xaviere Gauthier made is true. It almost seems (or atleast seemed in earlier days) that it was a lose, lose situation. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.