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A Needle In Your Heart

                 In her 1979 essay Women’s Time , Julia Kristeva calls for a radical program of gender terrorism. Civilization is “bored to death” and the job of Feminism is to painfully shock society out of its stupor (Kristeva Women’s Time ,193). It must first and foremost emphasize the real fundamental difference between the sexes. To a large extent the goals of feminism were accomplished—women have at least nominal equality in the political, economic, and professional spheres. Only those goals to do with sexual difference—contraception, abortion, and sexual liberation for example—seem to be still on the table. Women are forced to endure, against their will, an all-out assault on difference and specificity, sacrificed on the altar of stability and conformity. Surely, some women rise within male-dominated hierarchies, but these are mere tokens. Real change must begin with symbolic violence. To this end, she points to women from disparate nations joining terror cells such as th