The Feminine and the Sacred
Book Details
- Publisher : Palgrave
- Published : 2001
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 83185
- ISBN 13 : 9780333969175
- ISBN 10 : 0333969170
About the Author(s)
Catherine Clement is a prominent French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic. After studying at the Ecole normale superieure under Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, she became a leading member of the school of French feminism and ecriture feminine.
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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”