| Author(s) | Maijan H. Al-Ruwaili |
| Affiliation | Department of English, College of Arts, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | Feminist Women for Deconstruction |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Arts. Volume 17, No 1. (2005/1425) |
| Abstract | Certain feminist women have defended a compatible alliance between feminism and deconstruction; this paper examines this alleged beneficial relationship and highlights the impasse it eventually reaches. As deconstruction fails their declared political aspiration, these feminists tend to alter the meaning of politics and appeal to “uncertainty and equivocation” for no apparent reason other than accommodating deconstruction. Ironically, these attempts only neutralize the politics of feminism, leading this alliance into a self-inflicted inertia: a state of paralysis between promises and their fulfillment. The incompatibility between the two stems from the essential traits of each: feminism is a political movement and deconstruction attacks every form of politics. This alliance, therefore, cannot be maintained without activating an aporetic paralysis for which politics is said to be neither “in the world” nor outside the world. |
