Hélène Cixous
(1937– )Algerian-born French academic and feminist. In 1974 Cixous became director of the Centre de Recherche en Études Féminines at the university of Paris at Vincennes. She is particularly ...
Luce Irigaray
(1930– )Belgian feminist theorist, whose work explored the construction of sexual difference in western philosophy and psychoanalysis. Irigaray was educated at Louvain, and taught in Brussels and ...
Violette Leduc
(1907–72).French writer. La Bâtarde, a key work of modern autobiography published in 1964 with a preface by Simone de Beauvoir, brought Leduc the success which had previously eluded her. ...
Women Writers in France
All too often women's writing is described trans‐historically, as though the conditions surrounding its production had been identical for all writers and at all periods. On the contrary, both the ...
