Cixous: "The Laugh of Medusa"

1. Why don't you write? (317)

2. women's writing --

individually (writing from the body 320)

2. seizing the occasion to speak (321)
3. from woman and for women --"first music from the first voice of love"; writing in white ink (322);
4. the Realm of the Gift vs. the Realm of the Proper (property-- appropriate--the fear of castration)
1. writing (323-24) -- 'work on the difference'
2. the other bisexuality--multiple, variable and ever changing, consisting as it does of the 'non-exclusion either of the difference or of one sex'.
3. flying (325)
4. "heterogeneous" and erogenous

• Resource Page on "The Laugh of the Medusa" http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/English295/albright/main1.htm
• More Class notes: http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/women/flc436/notecixous.html