Toril Moi Summary

In the following review, Rose evaluates the themes of Sexual/Textual Politics in the context of comparison to Gayle Greene's Making a Difference. It hasn't been much more than a decad... Read more

In the following review, McCallum outlines Sexual/Textual Politics, praising the work as illuminating and provocative. Toril Moi's Sexual/Textual Politics takes as its theme “the meth... Read more

In the following review, Todd maintains that Sexual/Textual Politics succeeds in uncovering the theoretical assumptions of feminist theory, but finds some weaknesses in the second half of the book. ... Read more

In the following review, Smith outlines the feminist scholarship of Sexual/Textual Politics, comparing it to the political and social concerns of Making a Difference and Rewriting English, two other g... Read more

In the following essay, Fuss discusses Sexual/Textual Politics in terms of recent feminist approaches to historicism that emphasize histories of feminism instead of feminist theories of history. Th... Read more

In the following essay, Cameron contrasts different feminist theories of language in terms of Moi's linguistic analysis in Sexual/Textual Politics. Since I am a linguist rather than a litera... Read more

In the following essay, Nussbaum discusses the historical significance of the term “Anglo-American feminist criticism” nearly twenty years after the publication of Sexual/Textual Politic... Read more

In the following essay, Knight analyzes the antithetical relationship between “theory” and “feminist theory,” comparing the critical practices of both kinds of thought. ... Read more

In the following review, Altman surveys the project to rehabilitate Beauvoir's reputation in such works as Simone de Beauvoir. “But what exactly were you looking for in The Second Sex... Read more

In the following review, Fallaize comments on the historical significance of Simone de Beauvoir in terms of its subject and its analysis. This eagerly-awaited book [Simone de Beauvoir] comes as a b... Read more

In the following review, Montfort provides a brief overview of the three main subsections of Moi's Simone de Beauvoir, concluding that the book is a powerful and significant contribution to fem... Read more

In the following review, Sage contrasts Moi's early feminist theories with the themes of What Is a Woman? Feminism is fiftysomething if you start counting from The Second Sex, and, like Tori... Read more

In the following review, Altman assesses the themes and style of What Is a Woman?, noting the relevance of Moi's readings of Beauvoir's thought to current feminist theory. What we nee... Read more