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The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

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Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

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The hero [of a narrative] must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female.... The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Female is what is not susceptible to transformation, to life or death; she (it) is an element of plot-space, a topos, a resistance, matrix and matter.

Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis

Born: November 29, 1938

Died: February 2, 2026 (aged 87)

Bio: Teresa de Lauretis was an Italian-born author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Known for:

Technologies of gender (1987)
Alice doesn't (1984)
The practice of love (1994)
Freud's drive (2008)

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