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Write! Writing is for you, you are for you, your body is for you, take it. First published in 1975, Medusas Laugh represented a defining moment for French feminism. In this landmark essay, feminist theorist and philosopher Hélène Cixous coined the term éc
A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history. As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down on he
Essayet Medusas latter fra 1975 indvarslede en nytilgang til spørgsmål om køn, kønnede forskelle og seksualitet, der opstod i forbindelse med feminismen og kvindekampen i 1970'erne.Det er en filosofisk refleksion, et poetisk skrift og politisk manifes
A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success. Sh
In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist H l ne Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations wi
Published in France as La jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine,
We defy augury. Theres a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlets last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new bookand the latest chapter in her Human C
A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas es
The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Helene Cixous's seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous's own meditations on problems of reading and writing, and on related themes such as exchange and the gift, love a
Hélène Cixous chronicles the last six months of her mothers life, transgressing the mother-daughter relation in the experience of dying Mother Homer is Dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writers mother in the 103rd year of her
In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of infinit
This collection presents six essays by one of Frances most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Hélène Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexesviewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing princi
Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with Theatre du Soleil and their director Ariane Mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous European theatre making of the last 40 years. This collection brings together