Opengender

Black feminists have frequently objected to the ethnocentricity of the universalising construct of 'sexuality.' Butler, following Foucault, had argued that 'power' is inadvertently productive as well as prohibitive and thus produces a diversity of subjectivities:

This chapter will overview efforts to refigure psychoanalytic feminist film theory in discursive frameworks to re-assert the specificity of 'the woman' through the materiality either of history and/or 'the body'.