The Newly Born Woman

The Newly Born Woman

Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément
Translated by Betsy Wing
Foreword by Sandra Gilbert

$18.50 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-1466-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1466-0

Published in France as La jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women's sexuality and unconscious shape their imaginary, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.

"This is an important book, which transgresses the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, and should be obligatory reading both for female and for male subjects." —The Modern Language Review

Hélène Cixous is the author of numerous works, including FirstDays of the Year (1998), Reading with Clarice Lispector (1990), Manna: for the Mandelstams for the Mandelas (1994), and Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva (1991).

168 pages | 1986
Theory and History of Literature, volume 24



The Newly Born Woman Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément Translated by Betsy Wing Foreword by Sandra Gilbert		$18.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-1466-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1466-0
Published in France as La jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women's sexuality and unconscious shape their imaginary, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history. "This is an important book, which transgresses the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, and should be obligatory reading both for female and for male subjects." —The Modern Language Review Hélène Cixous is the author of numerous works, including FirstDays of the Year (1998), Reading with Clarice Lispector (1990), Manna: for the Mandelstams for the Mandelas (1994), and Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva (1991). 168 pages \| 1986 Theory and History of Literature, volume 24