Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory

✍ Scribed by Toril Moi

• Publisher: Methuen & Co.
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Series: New Accents
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical
social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such
change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that
both reflect our society and help to shape it.
Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of
what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. Here,
among large numbers of students at all levels of education, the
erosion of the assumptions and presuppositions that support the
literary disciplines in their conventional form has proved
fundamental. Modes and categories inherited from the
past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new
generation.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
'Images ofWomen' criticism
Women writing and writing about women
Theoretical reflections
French feminist theory
Helene Cixous: an imaginary utopia
Patriarchal reflections: Luce lrigaray's looking-glass
Marginality· and subversion: Julia Kristeva
Notes
Index