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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
Essayet Medusas latter fra 1975 indvarslede en ny tilgang 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 manif
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
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 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
A genre-defying book about survival, transformation, and the human ability to rise from the ashes. Hélène Cixouss powerful new book, masterfully translated by Peggy Kamuf, is a vivid journey through fire. From the ashes of wars, wildfires, and upheaval, 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
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
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