Out of roiling French feminist theory in the 1970s, philosopher and writer Helene Cixous developed the practice of lecture feminine - based on the notion of ecriture feminine - as an analytic approach in her own seminars. In musicology, it wasn't until the 1990s that gender studies introduced new attitudes as methods. Might Cixous' lecture feminine serve as a historically rooted analytic approach for musicology and multimedia today? A theory of otherness that brings the body into play with the intellect, that questions the validity of the text, that poetically encourages a collective and...
Out of roiling French feminist theory in the 1970s, philosopher and writer Helene Cixous developed the practice of lecture feminine - based on the not...