chora
"Philosophy. In Plato, chora is used in a sense close to space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialise.
"Chora, which Derrida insists must be understood without any definite article, has an acknowledged role at the very foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and placing: it signifies, at its most literal level, notions of "space", "location", "site", "region", "locale", "country": but it also contains an irreducible, yet often overlooked connection with the fuunctions of feminity, being associated with a series of sexually-coded terms -- "mother","nurse","receptacle", and "imprint-bearer". From Elizabeth Grosz (1995) Space, time and perversion.
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