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This 8 page paper compares and contrasts Helene Cixous' Laugh of the Medusa, to the themes and ideas found in Audre Lorde's work, The Uses of the Erotic. Quotes cited from both texts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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repressed, subjected to ridicule, then colored with enough jargon to make even the most devout nun blush. What was this sacred knowledge? According to feminist writers, Cixous and Lorde, this
sacred knowledge is the power of the erotic to free women from external motivators that would force definitions upon one without regard to self. Cixous and Lorde both redefine
the meaning usually given to the term erotic. To most of society, proof they say of the war against womens bodies, eroticism in merely a veiled form of sexual tension,
of pornography. However, Cixous has this to say: Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as
violently as from their bodies"(Cixous 309). Cixous explanation, one of many, is that eroticism of the body is only a metaphor for the eroticism of the self, of the mind,
so that the power of pleasure and possibilities (in regard to writing and the arts) are made more apparent. Cixous believes that one of the vehicles by which women will
be able to break the male dominated perceptions of female empowerment is through more women embracing and engaging in writing and other creative pursuits.
One has to consider that what Cixous is stating is credible. Biologically it has been proven that women have a thicker medulla obligata which allows more information to pass between
the hemispheres of the brain. Given this, then, is it also not credible that women are capable of more creative intuition and creative works than perhaps their male counterparts? And
yet, women are constantly held up to the ideas and phallocentric artistic yardstick when their work is judged. As part of her central theme in her work, Cixous embraces the
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