Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:15:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Helene Cixous


Hi--
	I'm very curious about the context of Cixous's remarks.  In
disowning a notion of "feminine writing," is she perhaps distancing
herself from the vexed issue of essentialism?  At what point in the
conversation did she express her denial?  Its seems pretty clear to me,
especially in *Coming to Writing* that she has proposed a writing of the
body correlated with feminine "diffuse" sexuality.

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