ABSTRACT
The figure of the passante as she appears in Baudelaire and then in Proust has taken us along a number of subsequent streets, in Paris and elsewhere, which now turn out to be walked by women who have other representations to make. With all the differences between them, both Rhys and Woolf bring into sharp focus the difficulty of moving away from a story that seems to have structured the sexual scene once and for all. In this chapter, we look not so much at the displacements implied or attempted in literary ways, as at the possible moves to be made through another kind of feminist writing: that of a theoretical journal.
