Feminisms’ “common ground” has operated historically to foreclose various categories of difference within the category “woman”, such that abject bodies (based on race, class and sexual orientation) are not only excluded from feminist discourse, but are also negated through the production of discourse itself. The “difference feminist” struggle is not only “to assert an identity but to assert difference” within gender categories rather than a reduction to essential characteristics of woman. However just as “woman” marks a “point of dispute where language itself becomes a problem, where one person’s injustice cannot be registered in the language of the other”
Most feminist critics reject the genderless mind, finding that the “imagination” cannot
Most feminist critics reject the genderless mind, finding that the “imagination” cannot