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In the manner of Foucault Denise Riley examines the category 'woman' showing its shifting as an historical construction relative to other categories central to concepts of personhood- the soul, the mind, the body, naturte, the social. Feminist strategies have thus oscillated, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality & of difference. Denise Riley is one of most interesting contemporary English poets on the 'experimental' side of the divide (as between Larkin & Prynne) & an incisive literary critic & theorist. |
