Gender as a barrier to sexual difference, as well as the critique of repetition and

spectatorship, remained central to feminist writings in the 1960s and 1970s. For
feminist studies in formal and abstract knowledge defined fields, the
reestablishment of a woman's image was done on the basis of gender emerging
as sexual difference. Women Studies, feminist journals, and media collectives
moved with the idea that sexual difference could not be recognised or affirmed,
but the notion persisted for decades, limiting the scope of feminist thoughts.