Toril Moi

What is a Woman?

And Other Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Written in a clear and engaging style What is a Woman? brings together two brand new book-length theoretical interventions, Moi's work on Freud and Bourdieu, and her studies of desire and knowledge in literature. A sustained refusal to lay down theoretical or political requirements for femininity, and a powerful argument for a feminism of freedom, What is a Woman? is a deeply original contribution to feminist theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186755
• ISBN-10: 0198186754
• Artikelnr.: 22431085

Autorenporträt

Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and author of the influential and best-selling Sexual/Textual Politics, (ed). The Kristeva Reader, and (ed) French Feminist Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* A Note on the Text
* Part I: A Feminism of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir
* 1: What is a Woman? Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theory
* 2: I Am a Woman: The Personal and the Philosophical
* Part II: Appropriating Theory: Bourdieu and Freud
* Introduction to Part II
* 3: Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's
Sociology of Culture
* 4: The Challenge of the Particular Case: Bourdieu's Sociology of
Culture and Literary Criticism
* 5: The Missing Mother: René Girard's Oedipal Rivalries
* 6: Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in
Freud's iDora/i
* 7: Patriarchal Thought and the Drive for Knowledge
* 8: Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism
* Part III: Desire and Knowledge: Reading Texts of Love
* Introduction to Part III
* 9: Desire in Language: Andreas Capellanus and the Controversy of
Courtly Love
* 10: She Died Because She Came Too Late: Knowledge, Doubles and Death
in Thomas's iTristan/i
* 11: Intentions and Effects: Rhetoric and Identification in Simone de
Beauvoir's iThe Woman Destroyed/i
* Works cited
* Index