文学和文化既是意识形态产生和再生产的工地,也是意识形态轮廓和矛盾显现的场所。唯物主义女权主义批评家并不设想文学和文化的生产会在简单摹拟的时刻中“反映”历史。既然我们生活在历史神话和历史叙述中,事实上,根本没有历史的反映。倒不如说,文学利用有关历史的意识形态产品和话语来制造它自己的产品。因而,文学文本未说的东西与它说出的东西一样饶有趣味。被抑制的话语与表述的话语一样内容丰富。因为省略会使文本生产的界限显得十分鲜明,会使我们看到它断定现实的局限。例如,在凯瑟琳·贝尔西的文章 Literature and culture are not only the sites for the production and reproduction of ideology, but also the places for the appearance and contradictions of ideology. Materialist feminist critics do not suppose that the production of literature and culture “reflects” history in a moment of simple imitation. Since we live in historical myths and historical narratives, in fact, there is no reflection of history at all. Rather it is, literature makes its own products using ideological products and discourse about history. Thus, what is unspoken in the literary text is just as interesting as what it says. The discredited discourse is as rich as the discourse of the expression. Because omissions make the boundary of text production so conspicuous, we can see that it concludes the limitations of reality. For example, in Catherine Bersi’s article