ABSTRACT
As Chris Weedon has summarized, post-structuralist feminist theory is premised on the notion that it is only in language that social reality can have any meaning. In other words, meaning is obtained through a range of discursive systems which support power structures. What is useful about this idea is its implication that certain experiences are at risk of not being articulated or legitimized just because they do not maintain the dominant order of social power. In fact, the main body of feminist theory has been engaged in extending current boundaries of articulation or exploring different modes of signification which are other to the language of the symbolic order.
