Julia Kristeva Women's Time

In Julia Kristeva’s work, Women’s Time demonstrates the relation of the woman’s body to time. Time is represented through the complexities of histories that are molded into society's’ conventions. The linear and male-dominated time construct the female body and reinforce the superiority complexion of males. She asserts that women are not defined by time but instead in space. This means that women should not assert themselves through time because it would then make them divorce themselves from their individuality and be defined by male standards. Instead, women should assert themselves in a space in time. In doing so, it will allow a political reform that will lead to a reevaluation of the female body and liberation from their bodies being subjugated by male preconceptions of the gender role of women. Also, in the chapter, Legible Bodies: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection by Susan Wells in the book Rhetorical Bodies edited by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley discusses the differences of the medical education between male and female students. This reveals the male-dominated scientific field in which it perceives woman’s medical science as different. This is seen …show more content…
The chapter in Rhetorical Bodies implies in regards to the red line, the fairness that is needed to give a proper education despite the student’s sex. The red line that is painted on the sidewalk that designates an area for the drop-off and pickup of the students at Las Lomas Elementary School, it demonstrates the differences between the roles of the students and teachers. It also distinguishes the differences among the student body. It is the teacher’s responsibility to provide equal treatment and opportunity for each student to get a proper