In her second book of critical prose, Am I That Name?: Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988), Denise Riley tracks the historical oscillations, in feminist and proto-feminist movements, between claims for and disavowals of the name ‘women’. The book asks how ‘women’ – as a name and as language – has interacted and will continue to interact with feminist political formations as both an irritant and a necessity. The book’s argument is that such shifts and mutations are not aberrant but rather endemic to feminism’s multifaceted relationship to the category ‘women’ in the first place. Riley’s goal is not simply to insist on the real heterogeneity of women, as if the category ‘women’ contained an empirical mass, however variable, but rather to show that the category itself amasses and gathers forces that sometimes do violence to those who call themselves or find themselves called ‘women’; so, as she writes,

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反社会，由内而外

在她的第二本批评散文《我是那个名字吗？：女权主义和历史上的“女性”类别》（1988 年）中，丹尼斯·莱利追踪了女权主义和原始女权主义运动中的历史波动，在主张和否认称呼“女人”。这本书询问了“女性”——作为一个名字和语言——如何作为刺激物和必需品与女权主义政治结构相互作用并将继续相互作用。这本书的论点是，这种转变和突变并不是异常的，而是女性主义首先与“女性”这一类别的多方面关系所特有的。莱利的目标不仅仅是坚持女性真正的异质性，好像“女性”这个类别包含了一个经验性的群体，无论多变，而是要表明该类别本身积累和聚集了有时会对自称为“女性”或发现自己被称为“女性”的人施加暴力的力量；所以，正如她所写，