ABSTRACT
Present and absent at the same time, marginality, for feminism, is not only a question of borderlines and frames, but a function of how we are accounted for in the economy of source and authority, which cites knowledge into being real, useful, and authoritative. Nagging, repetitive complaining constrains feminists to repetitively assert the ground zero of our positions, often preventing us from getting anywhere else. “What woman writer wants to say … that men still aren’t reading feminist work; that women are being ‘left out again’”? 1 What woman wants to be accused of being vulgar for being so assertively repetitive? 2
