Cixous/Kristeva 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 important, according to Cixous, for women to write as woman? What are the implications of such writing for the potential of women writers to persuade other women? Other men? In "The Laugh of the Medusa" Cixous discusses how women have been repressed through their bodies all through history. Cixous attempts to answer the question of why the voices of so m....

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