What is a woman? : and other essays
This challenge to the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", brings together Moi's work on Freud and Bourdieu, and her studies of desire and knowledge in literature.
xxiv, 517 pages ; 24 cm
9780198122425, 9780198186755, 019812242X, 0198186754
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What is a woman? Sex, gender, and the body in feminist theory
"I am a woman': the personal and the philosophical
Appropriating Bourdieu: feminist theory and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture
The challenge of the particular case: Bourdieu's sociology of culture and literary criticism
The missing mother: René Girard's Oedipal rivalries
Representation of patriarchy: sexuality and epistemology in Freud's Dora
Patriarchal thought and the drive for knowledge
Is anatomy destiny? Freud and biological determinism
Desire in language: Andreas Capellanus and the controversy of courtly love
'She died because she came too late ... '; knowledge, doubles and death in Thomas's Tristan
Intentions and effects: rhetoric and identification in Simone De Beauvoir's 'The women destroyed'