LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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How women really feel about male writers
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The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
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Second-wave feminism
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Psychological studies of women
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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduced by Helene Cixous in her essay, The Laugh of the Medusa, ecriture feminine refers to a uniquely feminine style of writing characterised by disruptions in the text, such as gaps, silences, puns, new images and so on.
Detailed explanation-2: -When a speaker (or writer) uses feminine style rhetoric, they use a voice that invites the listener to test their personal experiences against what the speaker is saying. When common understanding is found, it creates agreement through identification.
Detailed explanation-3: -L’écriture feminine is a concept coined by French feminist Hélène Cixous in her landmark manifesto “The laugh of the Medusa” in 1975.
Detailed explanation-4: -Archi-ecriture is a related term that Derrida coined to refer to writing as an ultimate principle than as a derivative of logos-thus, speech can be seen as a form of writing; writing on air waves, writing on the memory of the listener or on the recording device. There is no fundamental dominance at work in ecriture.