The Miseducation of a French Feminist

The term écriture féminine is from Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of Medusa,” trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs 1, no. 4 (1976): 875–93.

For extended accounts of how “the child” does all this sexual, racial, and gender work, there are books you should read, like Kathryn Bond Stockton’s The Queer Child (Duke University Press, 2009) and Robin Bernstein’s Racial Innocence (NYU Press, 2012). I also wrote a book about this in the case of trans kids, Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).

Luce Irigaray, J’aime à toi (Éditions Grasset, 1992).