She describes a writing style, écriture féminine, that she says attempts to move outside of the conventional rules found in patriarchal systems.

This text is situated in a history of feminist conversations that separated women because of their gender especially in terms of authorship.

Cixous uses the term the "Logic of Antilove" to describe her understanding of the systematic oppression of women by patriarchal figures.

"[2] This idea persecutes women by defining them by what misogynistic tradition believes makes the female sex inferior.

[4] This text is also a critique of logocentrism and phallogocentrism, because it de-prioritizes the masculine form of reason traditionally associated with rhetoric, having much in common with Jacques Derrida's earlier thought.

[5] In homage to French theorists of the feminine, Laughing with Medusa was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.