ABSTRACT

The relationship of men in pheminism is an impossible one. The "proposition" of the preposition is intrusive; it signifies break-and-enter with all the multiple meanings that this entails, from virginal to criminal rapprochement. In the late '60s and early '70s, Louise Bourgeois hung sculpted penises and made breast sculptures which resembled some form of tuberous plant, metaphorically subsuming organicism with feminism. Feminization of work in a postindustrial society means that even executive jobs are not secure for life. Feminized jobs refer to the vulnerability of the job market where such jobs are disassembled, reassembled, exploited as a reserve labor force. Woman as masquerade has been effectively applied by feminists in psychoanalytic film analysis. The earliest liberalist feminist ruse, adopted by middle-class White women, was to claim equal status to middle-class White men who essentially were the guardians of the Canon, overlords of the cultural heritage.