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May 14, 2016 · Introduced by Helene Cixous in her essay, The Laugh of the Medusa, ecriture feminine refers to a uniquely feminine style of writing characterised by disruptions in the text, such as gaps, silences, puns, new images and so on.
Aug 23, 2022 · Hélène Cixous says that in the exercise of the ecriture feminine, women shall write in ‘ with mother’s milk ’ that finds origin during the development stage of a mother-child relationship just before the child is introduced to ‘male-centric verbal language’.
Jun 9, 2023 · In this paper, we pick up a lesser known Cixous text, ‘Le Sexe ou la tête?’ that offers an interesting and provocative perspective on the traps associated with being feminine in a masculine environment.
It was in the essay “The Laugh of the Medusa” that Cixous introduced the concept of ecriture feminine or feminine writing. However, the question remains: what exactly is feminine writing? How can it be defined?
- Debadrita Chakraborty
Écriture féminine, or "women's writing", is a term coined by 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 that deviates from traditional masculine styles of writing, one which examines the relationship between the cultural and ...
Sep 14, 2022 · This text considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) as one way to do feminist legal translation. It discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time as a reflection both on what law as well as what the self is or can be.
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This paper aims to explore French feminist, Helen Cixous’ revolt against oppressive phallocentric language and patriarchal conventions through her formulation of a new form of writing known as ecriture feminine or feminine writing through her seminal essay “The Laugh of the Medusa”.
