In 'Les soleils des indépendances' the Ivorian author Amadou Kourouma paints a touching picture of the African woman from an innovative and never-before-read angle: Julie POPE analyzes writing as male or female.She examines the stereotypes of male discourse as matter, and female discourse as form. Women would write more according to their social context, their 'state of woman' (according to whether they are pregnant, mothers, daughters, wives).The femininity of a writing is what Jean François Lyotard writes in 'Rudiments païens': 'The femininity of your writing depends, we believe, on what passes through it. One will say that it is feminine if for example it operates by seduction, rather than by conviction.