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What is a woman?: and other essays/ Toril Moi

By: Moi, Toril Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xxiv, 517 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 019812242X; 9780198122425Subject(s): Feminist theory | Women and literature | Feminism and literature | FeminismDDC classification: 305.4

Contents:

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'.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.4 MOI/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	27/05/2024	P03345

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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'.

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