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Écriture féminine, or "women's writing", is a term coined by French feminist and literary theorist Hélène Cixous in her 1975 essay "The Laugh of the Medusa".
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
"The Laugh of the Medusa" is an exhortation and call for a "feminine mode" of writing which Cixous calls "white ink" and écriture féminine. Cixous builds the text using the elements of this mode and fills it with literary allusions. She instructs women to use writing as a means of authority.
Écriture féminine, postmodern feminist literary theory; Feminist literary criticism; Women in speculative fiction, including science fiction; Women's page, newspaper section for topics presumed to interest women; Women's script (disambiguation), variation of syllabic characters in some writing systems
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Écriture féminine literally means women's writing. It is a philosophy that promotes women's experiences and feelings to the point that it strengthens the work. It is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the 1970s. Cixous first uses this term in her essay, The Laugh of the Medusa in which she asserts:
Moi made her name with Sexual/Textual Politics (1986), a survey of second-wave feminism in which she contrasted the more empirical Anglo-American school of writings, such as gynocriticism, with the more theoretical French proponents of Ecriture feminine.
"Ecriture féminine is the naturalising metaphor of the political fact of the domination of women. [...] Therefore, to talk about an "écriture féminine" amounts to saying that women don't belong to history and that writing isn't a material production" [1]. (My traduction from french). She specifically stood up against écriture féminine.