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

Name: Sex, Gender, and the Body The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?
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ISBN: 9780199276226

ISBN-10: 0199276226

ISBN-13: 9780199276226

Edition: 2004 (Student Manual, Study Guide, etc.)

Authors: Toril Moi

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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 to feminist theory, and shows that The Second Sex, 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 seriouschallenge to dominant…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



A Note on the Text



What Is a Woman? Sex, Gender and the Body in Feminist Theory


Introduction



Biology and Social Norms



Sex and Gender in the 1960s and 1970s



The Poststructuralist Picture of Sex and Gender



'The Body is a Situation': Simone de Beauvoir



Does It Make a Difference? Sex, Gender and the Law


Afterword: The Point of Theory



'I Am a Woman': The Personal and the Philosophical


Introduction



Contemporary Theory



The Second Sex



Some Concluding Thoughts


Works Cited


Index