Catherine Clément
Catherine Clément (; born 10 February 1939) is a French
philosopher,
novelist,
feminist, and
literary critic, born in
Boulogne-Billancourt. 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.
She lived many years overseas, as her husband,
André Lewin (1934–2012), was a diplomat who was France's Ambassador to India, Austria, Guinea, Gambia and Senegal. She was awarded the Grand Officer of the
Ordre national du Mérite in 2012 and the Commander of the
Legion of Honour in 2017.
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