This collection presents six essays by one of France’s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes—viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning—manifest themselve...

This collection presents six essays by one of France’s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes—viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning—manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.