Sex, Gender, and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?

by Toril Moi

Book Overview

This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman?

What is a woman? Does it make sense to think of a woman as the combination of sex and gender? Is "I am a woman" the same kind of declaration as "I am a man"? What does it mean to speak "as a woman"? In these essays Moi rethinks the contribution of Simone de Beauvoir...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199276226
• ISBN13: 9780199276226
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Philosophical Essential

Toril Moi's "What is a Woman? And Other Essays" is essential reading for further development of a feminist consciousness, compelling and clearly delivered. Complex feminist theory is presented in logical, comprehensible full detail; the philosophical esoterica of feminist thought is coupled with its practical relevance. A definitive thinker at her very best.