About the Author

HÉLÈNE CIXOUS is a French writer, feminist philosopher, playwright, critic, and activist who continues to influence writers, scholars, and feminists around the world. Her recent works include Reveries of the Wild Woman (Northwestern, forthcoming), The Third Body (Northwestern, 1999), Veils (with Jacques Derrida) (Stanford, 2001), Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (Columbia, 2003), and The Writing Notebooks of Hélène Cixous (Continuum, 2004).

BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC is also the translator of Hélène Cixous's The Day I Wasn't There.

Reviews

"Cixous gives the reader a rich, complex and poetic example of her command of language." --Lilith