Abstract
The chapter title The Emperor’s Moth is a reference to the story The Emperor’s Clothes. According to the story the Emperor was told the truth by a child of a deception by the people that the Emperor had been tailored with the finest garments in all of the world. During a celebration the child blurted out that the Emperor had no clothes. The child therefore punctured the consensus held in place by the consistent insistence by the people that the Emperor’s clothes were indeed visibly appreciated and dispelled the Emperor’s cover of his embarrassment at his presumable inability to experience the clothing. The Emperor’s moth is a play on a concept of the configuration of such an illusive image as a moth etching a hole in an invisible garment. Hence a metaphor for the model of position as an avenue and a vehicle that draws edges to reveal the invisible as transparent.
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Barrett, T. (1997). The Emperor’s Moth. In: Gowaty, P.A. (eds) Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_25
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