'Sexual Difference'

In the Luce Irigaray's 'Sexual Difference', the Judith Butler 'Bodies that Matter', and Xious, all of these touch on describing the difference their is between Men and Women. In each essay they talk about different ways that men and women are different, even the tittle in Luce Irigaray's essay, 'Sexual difference', can be used as an example to portray the difference. "For the work of sexual difference to take place, a revolution in though and ethics is needed." (170) This is an example in trying to understand that in order to portray sexual difference, their must be a conflict by discussing the beliefs implemented by society, and the knowledge implemented by writings of history, between these coming to a conclusion of what would be the important difference.

It goes back in history to religion where man are different by having the superior value, "It is man who has been the subject of discourse, whether in the field of theory, morality or politics. And the gender of God, the guardian of every subject and discourse, is always paternal and masculine in the west." (170) Acts as an example in describing the difference viewed in the wst of, the masculine figure having supreme value. The difference view of women is that they are given the minor roles, "For women, there remain the so-called minor art-forms: cooking, knitting, sewing, and embroidery; and in exceptional cases, poetry, painting and music." (170) This illustrates the difference women where considered doing, that is in a way describing their position at that time. Although, comparing the sexual difference can also be used in ways of describing how there can be an opposite meaning in determining groups like in how Xious argues sayin, "I am careful here to use the qualifiers of sexual difference , in order to avoid the confusion man/masculine; women/feminine: for there are men who do not repress their femininity, women who more or less forcefully incribe their masculinity." (232) This means that sexual difference would not be a big issue in having meaning, because things may change in which men would hae different points of view, in which they would follow ideas from feminine characteristics , and also the same for women that they would follow ideas from a maculine point of view. This can be an example of how in Judith Butler, the whole theme of homosexuals, "Calling gay men 'feminine' or calling lesbians 'masculine'." (248) Therefore, the argument of sexual difference can work as viceversa, in which it can be portrayed as said by Xious, that everything has to go th opposite way, like men/women, or women/man, it will function as the same having a similar meaning, in describing their ideas. Therefore, the ideas in comparing sexual difference can describe men and women, in example of man being time, from the beggining, a superior form as described as God being masculine, to desbribing women as space as being able to having roles of minor works.