SOURCE: Rose, Ellen Cronan. “Discourse and Ideology.” Women's Review of Books 3, no. 5 (February 1986): 17-18.

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 decade since the first, ground-breaking anthologies of feminist literary criticism appeared, bravely claiming The Authority of Experience, heralding nothing short of a revolution in pedagogy, publishing and canon (re)formation. Yet three years ago as I was putting together a reading list for a course in Feminist Literary Theory, I thought I could glimpse outlines of an emerging “history,” as “Images of Women” produced “Resisting Readers” who called for a “Literature of Their Own” until reminded of Archimedes. And then New French Feminisms changed the language and the name of the game. Toril Moi's Sexual/Textual Politics is the book I might have wished...