Discusses a destabilizing re-reading allowing the re-examination of Ernest Hemingway and Hemingway scholarship, not only in the light of feminist theory, but also other ideological, philosophical, cultural, linguistic, historical and psychological theories. Re-reading of A. E. Hotchner's "Papa Hemingway"; Absences related to women in Hemingway's life and texts; Catherine Barkley in "A Farewell to Arms."