Helene Cixous: Writing And Sexual Differences (transitions)

Hélène Cixous Writing and Sexual Difference Abigail Bray Hélène Cixous transitions General Editor: Julian Wolfreys Published titles BATAILLE Fred Botting and Scott Wilson NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATERIALISM John Brannigan HÉLÈNE CIXOUS Abigail Bray GENDER Claire Colebrook POSTMODERN NARRATIVE THEORY Mark Currie FORMALIST CRITICISM AND READER-RESPONSE THEORY Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack IDEOLOGY James M. Decker QUEER THEORIES Donald E. Hall MARXIST LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORIES Moyra Haslett LOUIS ALTHUSSER Warren Montag RACE Brian Niro JACQUES LACAN Jean-Michel Rabaté LITERARY FEMINISMS Ruth Robbins DECONSTRUCTION • DERRIDA Julian Wolfreys ORWELL TO THE PRESENT: LITERATURE IN ENGLAND, 1945–2000 John Brannigan CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE, 1337–1580 SunHee Kim Gertz MODERNISM, 1910–1945 Jane Goldman POPE TO BURNEY, 1714–1779 Moyra Haslett PATER TO FORSTER, 1873–1924 Ruth Robbins BURKE TO BYRON, BARBAULD TO BAILLIE, 1790–1830 Jane Stabler MILTON TO POPE, 1650–1720 Kay Gilliland Stevenson SIDNEY TO MILTON, 1580–1660 Marion Wynne-Davis Forthcoming titles TERRY EAGLETON David Alderson JULIA KRISTEVA AND LITERARY THEORY Megan Becker-Leckrone NATIONAL IDENTITY John Brannigan HOMI BHABHA Eleanor Byrne POSTMODERNISM • POSTMODERNITY Martin McQuillan ROLAND BARTHES Martin McQuillan MODERNITY David Punter PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE Nicholas Rand SUBJECTIVITY Ruth Robbins POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Malini Johan Schueller TRANSGRESSION Julian Wolfreys DICKENS TO HARDY, 1837–1884 Julian Wolfreys transitions Series Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–73684–6 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England transitions Hélène Cixous Writing and Sexual Difference Abigail Bray © Abigail Bray 2004 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan is a registered tradema