The Hegemonic System of Production. How Shakespeare and History Commodify and Confine the Feminine

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, , course: Seminar II, language: English, abstract: Luce Irigaray, a French feminist and theorist, postulated a theory in which gender constitutes an economic exchange. Women become commodities within a patriarchal economic system and their identities are thus derived from their value to men. Irigaray claim...