In 1975, in "The Laugh of the Medusa," published in L'Arc, Helene Cixous argued for a revolutionary reconception of writing that would explode traditionalism and allow for what she then called ecriture feminine. Her intentions in this volume, a series of lectures given at the Wellek Library in May 1990, are not so forthrightly ideological, nor does she offer much pragmatic assistance for the teacher of composition or the would-be-famous novelist. Instead, Cixous explores three distinct ...