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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (New Accents)
Sexual/Textual Politics Feminist Literary Theory - New Accents Author:Toril Moi What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole? Sexual/Textual Politics is the first critical introduction to consider some of the wider questions raised by feminist literary theory. Through a detailed... more » exposition of the major works and authors in the field, Toril Moi critically examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French. Particular attention is given to the work of influential French theorists, Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. Written for readers with little or no previous knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own particular intervention into important arguments within the field, arguing provacatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches. In this approach it will also be of interest to those feminists and students of literary theory already well versed in the subject.« less