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body from objectification, through the appropriation, blurring, and
multiplication of selves. In so doing, she is "jumbling the order of
space, disorienting i t , . . . emptying structures and turning propriety
upside down" (Cixous, 887) or, to use her own words, "causing a
commotion" (True Blue).
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Grace A. Epstein

N otes
1. Irigaray uses this term to designate the cultural abstraction of woman.
2. Oglesbee selects C)mdi Lauper over Madonna as a "female hero" and,
in the early 80's when Oglesbee wrote his analysis. Madonna may have
appeared more traditionally feminized. However, I hope to indicate that
Madonna embodies his notion of subjectivity far better than Lauper.
B ibliograp h y
Benjamin, Jessica. Bonds of Love. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.
Cixous, Helene. 'The Laugh of the Medusa," Trans. Keith and Paula
Cohen.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Summer 1976: 875-893.
de Lauretis, Theresa. Alice Doesn't Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984.
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