- Hélène
Cixous (/sɪkˈsuː/; French: [siksu]; born 5 June 1937) is a
French writer,
playwright and
literary critic.
During her
academic career, she was primarily...
-
French feminist and
literary theorist Hélène
Cixous in her 1975
essay "The
Laugh of the Medusa".
Cixous aimed to
establish a
genre of
literary writing...
- "The
Laugh of the Medusa" is an
essay by
French feminist critic Hélène
Cixous.
Originally written in
French as "Le Rire de la Méduse" in 1975, a revised...
- of
Cixous's novel,
which touched on many
themes including telepathy in
Cixous and the work of
Jacques Derrida and
Sigmund Freud.
Grant and
Cixous spoke...
-
hashtag stigmata in her portrait, #Me(dusa)too.
Feminist theorist Hélène
Cixous famously tackled the myth in her
essay "The
Laugh of the Medusa." She argues...
- In the 1970s,
Cixous began writing about the
relationship between ****uality and language. Like many
other feminist theorists,
Cixous believes that human...
-
introduction to
Cixous' The
Newly Born Woman,
literary critic Sandra Gilbert writes: "to
escape hierarchical bonds and
thereby come
closer to what
Cixous calls...
- Hélène
Cixous translated Água viva into
French in 1980, and it
formed an
integral part of her
seminars at
Paris VIII.
Cixous argued that in the...
- Derrida's
phallogocentric reading of 'all of
Western metaphysics'. For example,
Cixous & Clément (1975)
decry the "dual,
hierarchical oppositions" set up by the...
- écriture féminine (which
translates as "female or
feminine writing"). Hélène
Cixous argues that
writing and
philosophy are
phallocentric and
along with other...
