Helene Cixous' call is clear: "Woman must write her self." Even if some of the post-structuralist and theoretical references in "The Laugh of the Medusa" can feel challenging for unversed readers, the ...

The hot Boston sun beat down on the audience through the translucent panels of the tent on Stokes Lawn as the women behind The Laughing Medusa illuminated the works of its latest magazine edition.

Cixous argued that rather than undermining the class struggle, militant women would "push it forward" to prevent it "from operating as a form of repression". By Juliet Jacques This piece is part of ...

The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite ...

On the birthday of French feminist author Helene Cixous, here's a look at how her best-known essay still resonates today. Helene Cixous' call is clear: “Woman must write her self.” Even if some of the ...