Attaining subjectivity as the woman destroyed.

• Main Author: Chow, Ming Yan.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35254
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper discusses the woman's difficulty in writing about herself through a language that is phallocentric. As Simone de Beauvoir highlights in The Second Sex, "as long as she still has to become a human being, she cannot be a creator", woman's passivity is similarly reflected...