Newly Born Woman

Published in France as La jeune ne in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hlne Cixous and Catherine Clment put forward the concept of criture feminine, exploring the ways womens sexuality and unconscious shape their imaginary, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clment explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.