What is (so Interesting about) Feminist Dialogics? I would like to start by saying that, succinctly expressed; I see feminism as a form of thought that intends to do away with the subordination of women in multiple ways, one of them being the examination of womens creative potential in literature. Feminisms resourcefulness lies (partly) in its capacity to shelter different feminist perspectives or feminisms, one of which is feminist dialogics. In 1994, Lynne Pearce defined feminist dialogics as a new school of criticism (102). Even though it was Pearce who identified the school, she named Dale M. Bauer as its founder. Quoting from D. M. Bauers and Jaret McKinstrys introduction to Feminism, Bakhtin and the Dialogic, Pearce summarizes feminist dialogics as a way of thinking that challenges the assumption... of a monolithic or universal feminism... a way of living that overcomes the public-private split... an epistemology which, like standpoint theory, believes that context and positionality are all... a new model of pedagogy which shows genders, classes and races in dialogue rather than in opposition... and most importantly, it is the latest... form of feminist political resistance.
