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Hélène Cixous first coined écriture féminine in her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975), where she asserts "woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies" because their sexual pleasure has been repressed and denied expression.
The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good, Dale Spender (1989) Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Catharine MacKinnon (1989) "What Battery Really Is", Andrea Dworkin (1989) [539] Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1989)
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."
That included Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, the latter of whom wrote a warm tribute to both the musical super stars on Instagram. “When I grew up, women were always pit against one another ...
The feminist movement produced feminist fiction, feminist non-fiction, and feminist poetry, which created new interest in women's writing. It also prompted a general reevaluation of women's historical and academic contributions in response to the belief that women's lives and contributions have been underrepresented as areas of scholarly ...
In addition to writing about womanhood and creativity, Walker addresses subjects such as nuclear weapons, anti-Semitism, and the Civil Rights Movement. In a 1984 review of the collection, Lynn Munro noted that: "Reading these essays not only gives one a clearer sense of Alice Walker but also countless insights into the men and women who have ...
Aziza “Z” Barnes, a poet and writer for the FX drama “Snowfall” and Netflix’s “Teenage Bounty Hunters” has died. They were 32. Their family confirmed via a rep that Barnes died of ...
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, who married RFK Jr. in 2014, shared her own Instagram tribute, writing it had been her “great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel. Her charisma ...