H L N E C I X O U S I LOVE YOU: THE JOUISSANCE OF WRITING H l ne Cixous is a challenging and lyrical French feminist and writer, author of the influential essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" and (with Catherine Cl ment) The Newly-Born Woman. Cixous is immensely productive, writing novels, plays, essays and poetic prose. Her ideas have provoked much debate in feminism: on the body, orgasmic writing, 'feminine' texts (' criture feminine'), essentialism...