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Toril Moi
is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985; 2nd edition 2002), Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1994) and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999). Toril Moi is also the editor of The Kristeva Reader (1986) and French Feminist Thought (1987). Her most recent book is Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (2006).
For any permission to reprint articles please contact the author directly: toril@duke.edu Website: www.torilmoi.comEurozine Articles
"I am not a woman writer"
About women, literature and feminist theory today
In the 1970s and 1980s, many women found the female in literature inspiring; but then Nathalie Sarraute snarled in an interview: "When I write I am neither man nor woman nor dog nor cat." Toril Moi finds that since then the discussion has gone nowhere. [more]
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