Sex, Gender, and the Body
The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 January 2005
- ISBN 9780199276226
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 235x156x17 mm
- Weight 455 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman?
A deeply original intervention in feminist theory, these essays rethink the legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, and show that The Second Sex, properly read, offers inspiring solutions to urgent contemporary problems. They provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a third way for feminism, beyond the current stalemate between essentialism and constructionism.
Long description:
This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman?
What is a woman? Does it make sense to think of a woman as the combination of sex and gender? Is 'I am a woman' the same kind of declaration as 'I am a man'? What does it mean to speak 'as a woman'? In these essays Moi rethinks the contribution of Simone de Beauvoir to feminist theory, and shows that The Second Sex, properly read, offers inspiring solutions to urgent contemporary problems. By suggesting that we think of the body as a situation, the first essay offers a serious challenge to dominant poststructuralist theories of sex and gender. The second essay investigates the place of the personal in theory. What is the status of references to personal experiences, or to one's person (one's race, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality) in theoretical debates? Both essays provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a third way for feminism, beyond the current stalemate between essentialism and constructionism. This is a major and truly original contribution to feminist theory.
In these two essays Moi goes beyond her previous writings and shows the reader in great detail how Beauvoir can help us get past the stagnation that has come to characterize feminist theory. They provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a "third way" for feminism.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
What Is a Woman? Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theory
'I Am a Woman': The Personal and the Philosophical
