{"product_id":"sex-gender-and-the-body-the-student-edition-of-what-is-a-woman-9780199276226","title":"Sex, Gender, and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eWhat Is a Woman?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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 to feminist theory, and shows\u003cbr\u003ethat \u003cem\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/em\u003e, properly read, offers inspiring solutions to urgent contemporary problems. By suggesting that we think of the body as a situation, the first essay offers a serious challenge to dominant poststructuralist theories of sex and gender. The second essay investigates the place of the\u003cbr\u003epersonal in theory. What is the status of references to personal experiences, or to one's person (one's race, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality) in theoretical debates? Both essays provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a third way for feminism, beyond the current stalemate between\u003cbr\u003eessentialism and constructionism. This is a major and truly original contribution to feminist theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toril Moi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.28w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199276226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToril Moi\u003c\/strong\u003e is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, author of the influential and best-selling \u003cem\u003eSexual\/Textual Politics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat Is a Woman?\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Kristeva Reader\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFrench Feminist Thought\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934192648307,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_54627b7c-831a-4c75-bce6-97e578e0757a.jpg?v=1647877248","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sex-gender-and-the-body-the-student-edition-of-what-is-a-woman-9780199276226","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}