In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

Literary Theory and Criticism 22/02/2021

A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
D. All of the above answers are correct.

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