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Catherine Clément

French writer and philosopher · France · On the map · Writers · Born 1939 · age 87

Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born to a Jewish mother in Boulogne-Billancourt.

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Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science2021
Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit2012
Commander of the Legion of Honour

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She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She has also made contributions to musicology; her Opera, or the Undoing of Women (1979) is notable for its emphasis on the representation of women in opera.

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France
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Writers
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Status
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Dates
Born 1939 · age 87