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Cixous/Kristeva
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Focus on 1227 and 1232-1245 only. What does Cixous identify as the main problematic for women's writing? (1227) How does she characterize women, women's bodies and women's writing in response to the Freudian/Lacanian essentialization of women? Why is it import .... Middle of Essay .... of false myths created by men such as Freudian. Cixous suggests that we as women need to question these faulty impressions of us created by men. If women did/do question these myths, if we would "look at the Medusa straight on," we would find out "she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing."
Cixous characterizes women as "black and beautiful", "we're stormy, and that which is ours breaks loose from us without our fearing any debilitation. Our glances, our smiles, are spent; laughs exude from all our mouths; we're not afraid of lacking." Cixous characterizes women's bodies and women's writing in response to the "inevitable man-with-roc ....
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