CIXOUS IRIGARAY KRISTEVA

<p><strong>CIXOUS IRIGARAY KRISTEVA</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>THE JOUISSANCE OF FRENCH FEMINISM</strong></p><p><br></p><p>By Kelly Ives </p><p><br></p><p> This book is a poetic study of three French feminists Luce Irigaray Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous the 'holy trinity' of French feminism. Cixous Luce Irigaray and Kristeva have created some of the most inspiring insightful and illuminating writing on contemporary feminism and philosophy. </p><p> </p><p> EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION </p><p> </p><p> Hélène Cixous Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva all have different modes of writing. There are times when they are writing in the sober tones of a cultural critic philosopher or psychoanalyst. They have strident feminist voices (Cixous and Irigaray more than Kristeva). They are personal reminiscence modes. They have a relaxed informal mode in interviews. And most powerful of all they have lyrical modes. Thus Cixous the most 'poetic' of the three will break into a visionary ultra-lyrical way of writing. </p><p> </p><p> Luce Irigaray too changes less frequently than Hélène Cixous from a critical to a lyrical form. Thus in a piece such as When Our Lips Speak Together Irigaray will write poetic sentences such as 'Kiss me. Two lips kiss two lips and openness is ours again.' This is the kind of phrase which never appears in most cultural theorists outside of quotation marks. One doesn't find Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Gilles Deleuze Jean Baudrillard Mikhail Bakhtin Michel Foucault Roland Barthes or Jean-Paul Sartre writing 'kiss me' very often. </p><p> </p><p> What marks Hélène Cixous Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva apart from many cultural theorists and philosophers then is this personal confessional and poetic way of writing where they directly address the reader as the other the 'you' in an intimate relationship. Derrida Foucault Baudrillard and Jakobson are rarely if ever this personal. </p><p> </p><p> KELLY IVES has written widely on feminism philosophy and art. Her previous books include Cixous Irigaray Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism Julia Kristeva Hélène Cixous and Wild Zones: Pornography Art and Feminism and Hélène Cixous. </p><p> REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. The text has been revised once more and updated for this fifth edition. Illustrated with a revised text. European Writers Series. Bibliography and notes. 208pp. Also available in paperback. www.crmoon.com</p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>REVIEW ON AMAZON:</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This text offers a useful introductory overview... it certainly provides a reasonably clear summary. To its credit this book is accessible ideal for first time students looking for ideas.</p><p><br></p>