Santos, Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa2016-05-252016-05-252013Revista Anglo Saxonica, Série III, Nº6. Lisboa: 2013. Pp. 21-450873-0628http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23795Drawing heavily on the work of classicist Page duBois, which eloquently explains the emergence, in ancient Greece, of hierarchy and of what is still understood today as the great chain of being (scala naturae: male, female, slave, barbarian, animal), this paper analyzes the age-old negative conotations of the concept of difference in western culture, considers the reinvention of difference as “positive” by Rosi Braidotti (after Deleuze & Guattari), and reassesses the efforts of several other feminist philosophers (e.g. Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Gayatry Spivak, Drucilla Cornell) to counter Lacan on the impossibility of “speaking women” beyond the dominant (male) philosophical discourse. Or, to paraphrase Marie Cardinal, their efforts to find “les mots pour le dire”.engWomen; Difference; Hierarchy; Sexism; Feminismbook part