Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist pp 153–169Cite as

Living Our Pedagogic Response-Abilities in Women’s and Gender Studies

  • Chapter

  • 570 Accesses

Part of the book series: Teaching Gender ((GEND))

Abstract

In her essay ‘To live the orange’, Hélène Cixous writes, ‘The orange is a moment. Not forgetting the orange is one thing. Recalling the orange is another thing. Rejoining it is another. At least three times are needed to in order to begin to understand the infinite immensity of the moment’ (Cixous, 1994, p. 88). Using the metaphor of self as apple, and Other as orange, Hélène Cixous suggests evocatively that being between two is a moment ‘to live the orange’ (Cixous, 1994).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Bray, A. (2004). Hélène Cixous: Writing and sexual difference. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cixous, H. (1990). Reading with Clarice Lispector (V. A. Conley, Ed. & Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cixous, H. (1993). Three steps on the ladder of writing (S. Cornell & S. Sellers, Trans.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cixous, H. (1994). The Hélène Cixous reader (S. Sellers, Ed.). London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cixous, H., & Calle-Gruber, M. (1997). Rootprints: Memory and life writing. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Conley, V. A. (1991). Hélène Cixous: Writing the feminine. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Diprose, R. (2002). Corporeal generosity: On giving with Nietzche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greene, M. (1995). Releasing the imagination: Essays on education, the arts, and social change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hill Collins, P. (1990). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. New York, NY: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • hooks, b. (2004). The will to change: Men, masculinity, and love. New York, NY: Washington Square Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Klobucka, A. (1994). Hélène Cixous and the hour of Clarice Lispector. Substance, 23(1), 41–62.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kristeva, J. (1991). Strangers to ourselves (L. S. Roudiez, Trans.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moreton-Robinson, A. (2004). The possessive logic of patriarchal White sovereignty: The High Court and the Yorta Yorta decision. Borderlands e-journal, 3.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The University of Queensland, Australia

    Elizabeth Mackinlay

Authors
  1. Elizabeth Mackinlay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Sense Publishers

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Mackinlay, E. (2016). Living Our Pedagogic Response-Abilities in Women’s and Gender Studies. In: Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-678-1_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-678-1_7

  • Publisher Name: SensePublishers, Rotterdam

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-6300-678-1

  • eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation