Аннотация:on the one hand, and from Woolf to Irigaray to Cixous on the other, masculinist and feminist theorists alike have toyed with the idea of a culturally determined body language which translates the articulations of the body into that body of articulated terminology we call language. Lately, in particular, linguistically-minded critics have increasingly called attention to the artificiality and indeterminacy of the terms through which we think we know the world, while psycho