Gynesis

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Gynesis was originally defined by Alice Jardine as "the valorization of the feminine" and woman's "connotations, as somehow intrinsic to new and necessary modes of thinking, writing, speaking" (Jardine 25). It is considered a theoretical reading of the feminine that disrupts the metanarratives of western culture (Friedman 18), and is the subject of her book, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity.

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• Jardine, Alice. Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity. ISBN 0801417686 Cited in this book review from French Review
• Friedman, Susan Stanford. Mappings : Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.