Misa Nagaoka
REL408
Dr. Unno
1-page-summary
January 13, 2002

	In chapter 6 of this book, the author mainly examines how the definitions and notions that were developed in France and became major definitions of women nowadays can be reconstructed and liberated to unshackle women from those definitions.  The process of this is examined from various ways such as notions of existentialist, psychoanalysis, novelist and so on.  According to Jacques Lacan, people internalize their roles, rituals and interrelated signs that regulate a society unconsciously, which is called “the Symbolic Order.”  Lacan insists it is the symbolic order antedates to exclude women from a society.  
Jacques Derrida criticizes some aspects of the symbolic order since it does not liberate thinking of all the assumption.  In order to deconstruct the definition of postmodern feminism, it examines three perspectives from Helene Cixous, who examined the different style of writing between men and women.   Luce Irigaray also looks at feminism writing from psychotherapist perspective.  Julia Kristeva makes argument over the symbolic element and semiotic element.  However, there are some criticisms over opacity of postmodern feminist.