Écriture Feminine and Its Effects on Literature Reading

The article will briefly introduce the beginning and chronological development of feminist criticism and two forms of it — Anglo-American feminism and French feminism. Then a notion, écriture feminine, brought up by Hélène Cixous will be demonstrated and analyzed how it undermines binary oppositions, with a textual example of “The Werewolf”. “Other bisexuality” from Cixous will also be discussed. In the end, there will be some discussion of the defective issues of écriture feminine.