Women’s Rights Delineated in Helene Cixous The Laugh of The Medusa.

Name of Author : S.Rubini

Abstract: Helene Cixous’ portrays on the feminism in The Laugh of the Medusa. The main idea she focuses in this book is that women must trace writing distain endeavor to avenue them away from their past field. She also proves how feminine writing could expression resembling over with the text itself. Cixous asserts in The Laugh of the Medusa that women must write books. One is personal level and another is historical level. On the personal it shows that the women would come back to her materialize to space in it. The female body was also expurgating as her writings. According to Cixous’ writing must give the women back her infiltrates and gladness which were defined and prepared her self-governed from regret. Historical level shows women’s writing marks her effective accession into history and has a medium with ambition. Cixous explains that women could not be obsessed with this. If a woman constantly represents herself contradictory to man, its occasion is to take an equivalent place within converse and create the witness of her own. She says that any feminine book has to be revolutionary, the bare performance of it. In this novel she portrays women who are able to write from a place but the man could be able to write. She says that a woman plays many roles in multiple ways.

Keywords : endeavor, self-governed, infiltrates, gladness, revolutionary

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