Concept

Écriture féminine

Overview

literary genre, deviating from traditional masculine styles, that examines the relationship between the cultural/psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Écriture féminine

• Feminism
• Hélène Cixous

Related ideas

• Stream of consciousness
• Film theory
• Judith Butler
• James Joyce
• Jean Genet
• Hélène Cixous
• Luce Irigaray
• Emmanuel Levinas
• Bracha L. Ettinger
• Feminism in France
• Phallogocentrism

Place in the tradition

Part of Phallogocentrism.

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