Luce Irigary identified a hegemonic structure that leaves female desire ' only a choice between a sort of animality...and the imitation of male models...any interplay of desire among women's bodies, organs, and language is inconceivable.
If the cat is an example of female desire, then Le Fanu offers readers both the animality and the imitation of male models that are the only sensuality available to Carmilla in a male-dominated culture.
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