Shelves: favorites As a feminist essay, The Laugh of the Medusa is written specifically to women imploring them to write. In all aspects, her writing is concise, navigable and powerfully sturring. At the very beginning, Cixous states, woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven as violently as from their bodies. Through this As a feminist essay, The Laugh of the Medusa is written specifically to women imploring them to write. For man has his own right to say where his own masculinity and femininity are at and to see themselves clearly—just as women have that same right.
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In the essay, Cixous issues an ultimatum: that women can either read and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them to express themselves, or they can use the body as a way to communicate.
This text is situated in a history of feminist conversations that separated women in terms of their gender and women in terms of authorship.
Cixous uses the term the "Logic of Antilove" to describe her understanding of the systematic oppression of women by patriarchal figures. She defines the Logic of Antilove as the self-hatred women have, "they have made for women an antinarcissism! The essay includes the argument that writing is a tool women must use to advocate for themselves in order to acquire the freedom women have historically been denied. Cixous builds the text using the elements of this mode and fills it with literary allusions.
She instructs women to use writing as a means of authority. Cixous explores how the female body is closely connected to female authorship. She conveys this message by employing a conversational dialogue in which she instructs her audience directly.
She urges her audience to write, using many direct conversational statements such as "Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. In doing so she challenges the distinctions between theory and practice expanding on the feminist rhetorical tradition.
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The Laugh of the Medusa
They all were highly influenced by theories of post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. These French feminists like Cixous both used and critiqued the ideas of such theories to question and challenge the male hegemony. The ideas of Derrida was used to critique the notion of binaries and the very nature of language, meaning and the way language plays a heavy role in the subordination of women, as majority of the concepts and ideas are prejudiced against women and are socially and culturally constructed by male hegemony to keep women under perpetual state of subordination. Cixous seminal work was titled as The laugh of Medusa and Sorties both of which were published in In this work The laugh of Medusa, Cixous uses psychoanalysis, inspired by the work of Lacan as mentioned above, to interpret the Greek mythology in a manner that challenges the patriarchal hegemony.
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In the essay, Cixous issues an ultimatum: that women can either read and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them to express themselves, or they can use the body as a way to communicate. This text is situated in a history of feminist conversations that separated women in terms of their gender and women in terms of authorship. Cixous uses the term the "Logic of Antilove" to describe her understanding of the systematic oppression of women by patriarchal figures. She defines the Logic of Antilove as the self-hatred women have, "they have made for women an antinarcissism! The essay includes the argument that writing is a tool women must use to advocate for themselves in order to acquire the freedom women have historically been denied. Cixous builds the text using the elements of this mode and fills it with literary allusions. She instructs women to use writing as a means of authority.
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Hélène Cixous
Her main focus, at this time, was English literature and the works of James Joyce. She published Voiles Veils with Jacques Derrida and her work is often considered deconstructive. In introducing her Wellek Lecture, subsequently published as Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Derrida referred to her as the greatest living writer in his language French. Her reading of Derrida finds additional layers of meaning at a phonemic rather than strictly lexical level. Along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva , Cixous is considered one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory.
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