This key collection of feminist writing includes essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama, all arranged chronologically. Spanning twenty years, it demonstrates the development of one of the great creative minds of the 20ieth century.

Foreword by Jacques Derrida, Introduction by Susan Sellers, Preface by Helene Cixous, Neutral: Difficulties of Translating Cixous Into English, Inside, First Names of No One, The Newly Born Woman, Breaths, La, Angst, To Live The Orange, (With) Or the Art of Innocence, Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite, The Book of Promethea, Extreme Fidelity, The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk King of Cambodia, The Place of Crime, The Place of Forgiveness, Indiada Or the India of Their Dreams, Manna to Mandelstams to the Mandelas, Firstdays Of the Year, Deluge, Three Steps On the Ladder of Writing, Afterword by Mirielle Calle-Gruber, Select Bibliography