patriarchal system of representation
- Phallus as a symbol of power, privilege, mastery, action, vitality, presence within our social norm
- Within this system or symbolic order, the subject is understood as male-the one who acts or observes; while the object is female, the one who appears or is seen
- Page 15, “Woman then stands in patriarchal culture…as bearer, not maker of meaning.”
- She lacks agency to create meaning because all of meaning is made in the terms of patriarchy