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An Algerian-born French feminist philosopher, researcher, and novelist. She studied English literature at the Sorbonne, earned her PhD in 1968, and became a professor a year later. Cixous founded the Women’s Studies Center at the University of Paris and has published many works on women and their status, in addition to several literary monographs. She was awarded honorary degrees from a number of universities as well as the prestigious Médicis Prize. Her article “The Laugh of the Medusa” is considered a seminal work in gender research.
