Catherine ClĂ©ment (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 Ăcole Normale SupĂ©rieure, and studied under its faculty Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and Ă©criture fĂ©minine, she has published books with HĂ©lĂšne Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She lived many