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As we return from fall break, we will be moving from our discussion with Susan Stryker, through the "response" of Sor Juana, to the "second sex" of Simone de Beauvoir. Each of these theorists wrote about, and against, the condition of being a monster. Stryker spoke the rage of the monster Frankenstein; Sor Juana wrote a poem about being the monster that is the extraordinary woman, the female genius; and de Beauvoir prophesies that women "will become monsters." So...

what are you learning, from each of these theorists, or from the intersection of their thinking, about the female/human condition of alterity and otherness? How is it made? How is it apprehended? How might it be (might it be?) transcended? (Here's one hint, from de Beauvoir: "the category of the Other is as primordial as consciousness itself.")