Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, this classic study nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely
textual or apolitical approaches. With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a brilliantly accessible must-read for all those interested in feminist literary
theory.
By:
Toril Moi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780415280129
ISBN 10: 0415280125
Series: New Accents
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 June 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist readings of Woolf; The rejection of Woolf; Rescuing Woolf for feminist politics: some points towards an alternative reading; PART I Anglo-American feminist criticism 1 Two feminist classics; Kate Millett; Mary Ellmann; 2 ‘Images of Women’ criticism; 3 Women writing and writing about women; Towards a woman-centred perspective; ‘Literary Women’; ‘A Literature of Their Own’; ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’; 4 Theoretical reflections; Annette Kolodny; Elaine Showalter; Myra Jehlen; PART II French feminist theory 5 From Simone de Beauvoir to Jacques Lacan; Simone de Beauvoir and Marxist feminism; French feminism after 1968; Jacques Lacan; 6 Hélène Cixous: an imaginary utopia; Patriarchal binary thought; Difference; Ecriture féminine 1) masculinity, femininity, bisexuality; The gift and the proper; Ecriture féminine 2) the source and the voice; Imaginary contradictions; Power, ideology, politics 7 Patriarchal reflections: Luce Irigaray’s looking-glass; Speculum; Specul(ariz)ation and mimeticism; Freud; Mysticism; The inexorable logic of the Same; Womanspeak: a tale told by an idiot? Idealism and ahistoricism 8 Marginality and subversion: Julia Kristeva; L’Etrangère; Kristeva and Anglo-American feminist linguistics; Sex differences in language use; Sexism in language; Language, femininity, revolution; The acquisition of language; Femininity as marginality; Feminism, Marxism, anarchism
Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. She is the author of several influential works on feminist theory, including What is a Woman?
Reviews for Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
'Neither a purely objective documentary nor a narrowly sectarian polemic... this book exemplifies feminist theory-making at its rigorous best.' - Women's Review
