About the Author

Helene Cixous chairs the Center for Research in Feminine Studies at the Universite de Paris VIII-Saint Denis and teaches at the College International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the author ofManna for the Mandelstams for the Mandelas(Minnesota, 1994),Readings(Minnesota, 1991), andReading with Clarice Lispector(Minnesota, 1990).

Catherine Clement has been a professor, a journalist, a diplomat, and cultural editor of Le Matin. She is the author ofSyncope(Minnesota, 1994) andOpera, or the Undoing of Women(Minnesota, 1988).

Betsy Wing is translator ofThe College of Socioloy, edited by Denis Hollier (Minnesota, 1988).

Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and coeditor (with Susan Gubar) ofThe Norton Anthology of Literature by Women(1985).