The “Great Register” symbolizes the process of how knowledge and information are created to eliminate the one prior. Stories and knowledge are inputted as well as blank pages hinting to the fact that it can be modified at any time. (157 EP) Speaking of time, there is no timeline in the “Great Register” as well as the whole course of the novel. The novel consists of many gaps and pages with just a circle printed without any relative continuous momentum in the story line. Bringing the “Great Register” into the novel is a true art form as it is bringing light to the exact nature and purpose of the book; for the readers to continue the fight against gender identity, binarisms, and discourses associated with them.
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The question is why choosing the vulva and the clitoris to expand the thought of their ideology instead of using the uterus? It can be easily separated in terms of body and sex. The use of the word uterus has no place in the novel as the womb is considered a sexual binarism directed at females: “is symbolized by the circle, the 0, which may be used to capture (encircle) and destroy males. Even at this point, however, the essence of female power and potential is not symbolized by the womb which receives, reproduces, and nurtures (in) the heterosexual ideology, but by the vulva, active, empowered, an autonomous locus of desire and energy which imprints itself aggressively upon both text and context.” (281 VW) By using the vulva, it allows the horizon to expand without constricting the borders of language and gender identity. The vulva is a sexual part of the body that places no distinction to the discourses that the binarism creates and removes it to become genderless. For example, despite the exuberant inventiveness with which the feminist women have multiplied metaphors for parts of their bodies and at several points the women reject such figurative language. It may seem that they are eschewing only those that are conventional. (160
In addition, the women write in …show more content…
The question is why choosing the vulva and the clitoris to expand the thought of their ideology instead of using the uterus? It can be easily separated in terms of body and sex. The use of the word uterus has no place in the novel as the womb is considered a sexual binarism directed at females: “is symbolized by the circle, the 0, which may be used to capture (encircle) and destroy males. Even at this point, however, the essence of female power and potential is not symbolized by the womb which receives, reproduces, and nurtures (in) the heterosexual ideology, but by the vulva, active, empowered, an autonomous locus of desire and energy which imprints itself aggressively upon both text and context.” (281 VW) By using the vulva, it allows the horizon to expand without constricting the borders of language and gender identity. The vulva is a sexual part of the body that places no distinction to the discourses that the binarism creates and removes it to become genderless. For example, despite the exuberant inventiveness with which the feminist women have multiplied metaphors for parts of their bodies and at several points the women reject such figurative language. It may seem that they are eschewing only those that are conventional. (160