 | Cynthia L. Caywood, Gillian R. Overing - 1987 - 260 pages
...writing process. The French feminist critics, first, connect writing to the body. Helene Cixous comments: "Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies" (Marks and de Courtivron, 245). Chantal Chawaf asks, Isn't the final goal of writing to articulate... | |
 | Marleen S. Barr, Richard Feldstein - 1989 - 268 pages
...proposes an answer to the dilemma by celebrating a feminine language that subverts the dominant discourse. "Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies . . ." (875). Woman comes into being, according to Cixous, by writing herself into being in an other... | |
 | Elizabeth Ammons - 1992 - 249 pages
...remains vivid almost a century later. As the late twentieth-century critic Helene Cixous argues: ' 'Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the... | |
 | Judith Roof - 1991 - 316 pages
...binary system of sexualized oppositions: "I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self; must write about women...they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies—for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal" ("Medusa" 245). While language... | |
 | Maggie Humm - 1992 - 444 pages
...EXTRACT THE LAUGH OF THE MEDUSA [1975]* I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the... | |
 | Marleen S. Barr - 1993 - 252 pages
...artist. Dragoiisong speaks out against repressing women's creativity by putting forth the idea that "woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into ihe... | |
 | Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller - 1994 - 492 pages
...1985. helene axous THE LAUGH OF THE MEDUSA I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the... | |
 | Judith Lorber - 1994 - 446 pages
...Medusa," says women must use their heads and their mouths for themselves: "Woman must write herself: must write about women and bring women to writing,...been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal" (1976, 875). As an assertion of... | |
 | Professor Roger Poole, Roger Poole - 1995 - 324 pages
...its place in an intertextual situation. 'I shall speak about women's writing; about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies.' Thus begins Helene Cixous's celebrated The Laugh of the Medusa'. The essay could act almost as a retroactive... | |
 | Jo Evans - 1996 - 182 pages
...to deny, the link between body and text: I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women...been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the... | |
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Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the... 
