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In the feminist discourse Oothoon is functioned as a liberator of sexual desire or an agitator bring the word to Englishwomen (daughters of Albion). In keeping with her fiery spirit, Oothoon finds delight everywhere, even in her own persecution. But in spite of her determination and conviction she remains a shadowy sort of half-figure, pushed to the fringes, unable though not unwilling to overthrow the predominantly masculine conventions which order sexual identity and the expression of desire. In a masculine discourse, the woman is a commodity in a system of exchange, a thing without a sex, without desire, tenable only as the material needed to complete the phallic systems of appropriation and domination, of which matrimony is one. Oothoon is placed squarely in the void that she might be completely “obliterated and erased.” Therefore, Oothoon is neither free, bold and receptive. Her rape initiates her into the terrors of the masculine discourse and, having been invalidated because of it, she is utterly incapable of retaining her freedom or bring the word to Englishwomen, that is, word of their destiny to overthrow State and Church restrictions on desire. She has become what she feared
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feminist discourse, masculine discourse, sexual desire, gender role, female language, male language
