In her eagerness to uncover the counter-discourse, Fonrobert idealized Yalta and overstated her participation in the halakhic discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference
Moreover, by relentlessly particularizing animalsby emphasizing that "their habitations" and "pursuits" are "as different as their forms and as their joys" (3: 5-6) Oothoon's counter-discourse strives to deconstruct the homogenizing concept of animality itself, thus challenging Bromion's philosophical claim that there can be "one law for both the lion and the ox" (4: 22). From Wordnik.com. [Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_] Reference
But even within such a novel, we can sometimes find moments of tension or counter-discourse, in which the "worldly" meanings of terms reasserts itself. From Wordnik.com. [Teach Me Tonight] Reference
In its pages can be found linguistic traces of the former rivalry between Boer and Briton, the naming practices of the Khoi and San (Hottentot and Bushman in former terms), racial conflict (derogatory terms like Boer, Kaffir, and Hottentot each have more than a page devoted to them), the political discourse of the apartheid regime, and the counter-discourse of the resistance movements. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference
But a form which brings to the surface - erupts from beneath the surface - the normally unspoken, the counter-discourse, the private, that which is not, in a. From Wordnik.com. [Superfluities Redux] Reference
In the third chapter Fonrobert emphasizes the counter-discourse of women’s bodies as architectural constructs (which she sees as the dominant discourse in rabbinic culture). From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference
This counter-discourse is identified as the attempt by Shmuel (BT Niddah 57a), the anonymous Talmud at the start of the Tractate, and Rabba (BT Niddah 4b) to attribute sentience to the woman’s body by having them recognize menstrual flow by sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference
This is not to say that the internal examinations are not in some manner an objectification of the woman’s body, but that Fonrobert’s claim that the sentient body is only part of the counter-discourse without relating to what became normative halakhah is to misrepresent that discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference
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