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VERENA ANDERMATT CONLEY (ESSAY DATE 1984)

SOURCE: Conley, Verena Andermatt. "Textual Strategies." In Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine, pp. 3-13. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

In the following essay, Conley addresses Cixous's theories of feminine discourse and illustrates the author's opinions of the femininity and masculinity of texts and writing.

May 1968: student-worker uprisings, the occupation of the Sorbonne—a stronghold of out-worn pedagogical traditions. Intellectuals cast aside their differences and march in the streets. Their demands: new universities; improved curricula; access to schools for everyone, not just for the privileged few. The political ferment is paralleled by an intellectual ferment with the advent of the human sciences, and readings in philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, linguistics. It is a period of belief in the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. HéLèNe Cixous (Essay Date 1975)
4. General Commentary
   1. Verena Andermatt Conley (Essay Date 1984)
   2. Morag Shiach (Essay Date 1991)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "The Laugh of the Medusa"
   2. Illa
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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