Intuition and Insight: A New Job Description for the Battered Woman's Prosecutor and Other More Modest Proposals

The relation between two persons, which was, so to speak, conatural to the feminine, becomes a process that has to be reconquered. Woman has to seek out the values of exchange and communication, as does man, but for different reasons. He has to overcome the priority he gives to the accumulation, possession, or at best the exchange of objects, while she must avoid the risks of hierarchy and submission, of fusion between persons, of losing her identity in the impersonality of one. 1