Poetic Politics: How the Amazons Took the Acropolis

Hypatia 3 (2):107-122 (1988)
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This paper explores the poetic politics of lesbian and feminist writing, the textual violence that writing exercises and the amazon intertext it creates. In this particular essay, Jeffner Allen takes as her point of departure the writing of Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00072.x

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Republic. Plato - 1993 - Princeton: Oxford University Press. Edited by Robin Waterfield.
Republic.Plato . (ed.) - 2008 - Oxford University Press UK.
The Laugh of the Medusa.Hélène Cixous - 1976 - Signs 1 (4):875-893.
The Newly Born Woman.Hélène Cixous - 1986 - U of Minnesota Press.
The Lesbian Body.Monique Wittig - 1975 - Beacon Press (MA).

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