At this point what I'm actually doing is referring you to the theoretical contents of my previous paper, which explains all of this and develops it, rather than having to do it all over again for this paper. That's what published authors are allowed to do as a matter of normative practice: refer to the body of established text they've already published and build upon it. In the academic environment, the person with ideas who has not been able to get them published does not easily have this luxury, and this is even more the case for those unpublished thinkers whose thoughts are not closely approximated by the writings of many other people whose works are in print, because then you cannot cite anyone else that makes more or less the same point for you, either.

And this is, of course, the position that feminists have found themselves in, in the academy. And it is this FACT, this SITUATION, that is the subject of my paper about Feminism & Sociology (the one to which I just referred you a handful of lines above this) as well as the objective purpose of poststructuralist feminism as an endeavor: to pry open the doors, to invalidate the institution's excuses for keeping our thoughts out. The poststructuralists, and I, are doing "metatheory", in other words theory about theory itself.

The process of validating ideas that is part of the content of radical feminist theory; just as the patriarchal canon of established social theory contains the tools for its own legitimation, radical feminist theory contains within itself the counterargument against the academy's excuses for keeping it out, and it all fits together as an intrinsic whole.

Poststructuralist feminist theory contains tools for attacking the academy's excuses for keeping feminist theory out. I bring with me a set of theoretical tools that are derived from radical feminist theory, and they are better. They are more coherently integrated with the rest of the body of radical feminist theory. As you continue on from here, you will soon see how destructive poststructuralist theory is for feminism, or at least my reasons for thinking so, and for being so passionate about it.