Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
Abstract
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 addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches. With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory.
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Jane Marie Todd, Toril Moi (1987). Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. Comparative Literature. https://doi.org/10.2307/1771097
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title = {Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory},
author = {Todd, Jane Marie and Moi, Toril},
year = {1987},
journal = {Comparative Literature},
doi = {10.2307/1771097}
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