The Feminology of Spirit

Abstract

The work of the Feminology, in both process and product, is work born out of sifting through, listening and selecting-out from Hegel’s language in the preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit. The Feminology, then, is poetry produced under the constraints of erasure, but is not a process that is taken up to either claim or reject Hegel or his text, but to ‘mingle’ and ‘linger.’ The writing process undertaken in producing the Feminology is a process of writing-with, of taking the language of the source-text into a field of combinatorial play and not a battlefield. If battle is one possible aim for erasure, the Feminology works toward another. At the least, in the Feminology, there is no struggle for primacy, not in authorship and not in political positioning.