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IZOLDA TAKÁCS: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY necessarily imply her becoming feminine too”® and vice versa. They consider this to be merely a question of personality, character, habitude, and not the biological gender.?#f I, for example, had a male peer who could only accept me as a leader if I was behaving manly, even when driving a car. But there is no such thing, that men are only manly and women only womanly. A woman can be masculine as well. But the majority is full of prejudices. Due to their childhood experiences, their models, like how their father behaved, etc. (Subject no. 17, social sciences) A problem arose with relation to the attitudes typical ofthis grouping. Since the gender of a woman is the most apparent difference, it would be worth mentioning why placing the female body into the focal point of identity research can be misleading.”*’ Based on the statements made by the interviewees grouped into this category, if the genders definitely need to be discerned, women have the more important roles — all things considered — due to their motherly (biological) obligations. They think women to be positively different from men, because a woman is a creator, existence itself is therefore tied to the female continuity. They particularly stressed femininity as the area of positive demarcation, meaning femininity and identifying with feminists do not necessarily exclude each other in this case, unlike with the “essentialist identifiers” group: No woman has to ever prove — just as a mother never has to ask — what life is, what the purpose of their life is; men do. (Subject no. 17, social sciences) We were sitting in the studio of a male painter. The wife — a painter as well — brought us cookies, took care of everyone, served the guests, as a good wife ought to. She was a better painter by miles than her husband. And besides, she even gave birth to two children. (Subject no. 17, social sciences) This also means that if a woman happens to have a more successful career than a man or her husband, the traditional roles will still apply at home. With regards to intergroup behaviour, Henri Tajfel (among others) states that “an individual will tend to remain a member ofa group [...] if these groups have some contribution to make to the positive aspects of his social identity; 285 Moi: Feminista irodalomkritika, 236. 86 Derrida elaborated on a Heideggerian interpretation referring to the 72nd fragment of The Gay Science that states that Nietzsche considers the formation itself a manly act, just as the whole of tradition. But if all that is shaped and created is manly, that means even the pro-creating mother is a masculine mother (cf. Derrida, J.: Eperons. Nietzsche stilusai, Athenaeum 1992, I. kötet, 3. füzet, Budapest, T-Twins 1992, 172-213). As such, it disunites itself from the general, social category of woman (Takäcs: Nök a tudomänyban). 287 Showalter: A feminista irodalomtudomány, 427. s 100
