Toril Moi

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Toril Moi is affiliated with the following schools: University of Bergen, Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. As an undergraduate, she attended University of Bergen, where she studied in the Literature Department. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. She lived in Oxford, United Kingdom from 1979 to 1989. Moi lives in North Carolina. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and is fundamentally concerned with "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other."

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The Kristeva Reader (1986) (1128)
Sexual/Textual Politics : Feminist Literary Theory (1985) (860)
Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture* (1991) (362)
What Is a Woman?: And Other Essays (2000) (319)
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1993) (150)
On the Idea of Private Law (100)
Feminist, Female, Feminine (1997) (75)
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (2006) (64)
Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud's ‘Dora’ (1981) (59)
While We Wait: The English Translation of The Second Sex (2002) (58)
French feminist thought : a reader (1987) (53)
Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (2017) (48)
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Style: Recent Feminist Criticism in the United States (1988) (43)
`I am not a woman writer' (2008) (43)
“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word (2006) (42)
From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan, and Feminism, Again (2004) (41)
A History of Feminist Literary Criticism (2010) (38)
Sex, Gender, And The Body (2005) (34)
Sex, Gender, and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman? (2005) (33)
The Missing Mother: The Oedipal Rivalries of Rene Girard (1982) (25)
Patriarchal thought and the drive for knowledge (2002) (22)
The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir (2011) (21)
"They practice their trades in different worlds": Concepts in Poststructuralism and Ordinary Language Philosophy (2009) (21)
What Can Literature Do? Simone de Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist (2009) (21)
Thinking Through Examples: What Ordinary Language Philosophy Can Do for Feminist Theory (2015) (20)
Challenging Identity Hierarchies: Gender and Consociational Power-Sharing (2016) (16)
Beauvoir\'s Time/Our Time: The Renaissance in Simone De Beauvoir Studies (2005) (15)
Existentialism and Feminism: the Rhetoric of Biology in the Second Sex (1986) (15)
“Nothing Is Hidden”: From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein on Critique (2017) (14)
"First and Foremost a Human Being": Idealism, Theatre, and Gender in A Doll's House (2006) (12)
Feminist Theory & Simone De Beauvoir (1990) (10)
Ibsen, Theatre, and the Ideology of Modernism (2004) (9)
Att erövra Bourdieu (2022) (9)
Ambiguity and Alienation in The Second Sex (1992) (7)
Commentary: The Challenge of the Particular Case: Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture and Literary Criticism (1997) (7)
Review. Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Foucault, Michel (1990) (6)
What Can Literature Do (2010) (6)
Jealousy and Sexual Difference (1982) (6)
Hedda’s Silences: Beauty and Despair in Hedda Gabler (2013) (5)
8. Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud's Dora (1985) (5)
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (2019) (5)
INTRODUCTION : Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist readings of Woolf (2003) (4)
Reading Kristeva: A Response to Calvin Bedient (1991) (4)
HÉLÈNE CIXOUS : An imaginary utopia (2003) (4)
"It was as if he meant something different from what he said--all the time": Language, Metaphysics and the Everyday in The Wild Duck (2002) (4)
How the French Read (2013) (3)
Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism (2017) (3)
Beauvoir’s Utopia: The Politics of The Second Sex (1993) (3)
Something That Might Resemble a Kind of Love (2014) (2)
Review. Revolution in Poetic Language. Translated by Margaret Waller with an introduction by Leon S. Roudiez. Kristeva, Julia (1987) (2)
Feminist Differings: Recent Surveys of Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (1988) (2)
Simone de Beauvoir's L'Invitée: an existentialist melodrama (1991) (2)
“She Died Because She Came Too Late…” Knowledge, Doubles and Death in Thomas's Tristan (1992) (2)
MARGINALITY AND SUBVERSION : Julia Kristeva (2003) (2)
"Am I That Name": Reply to Deborah Knight (1995) (2)
Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: A Review Essay (2016) (2)
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Politics: A Conversation with Juliet Mitchell (1994) (2)
Simone de Beauvoir : conflits d'une intellectuelle (1995) (2)
‘IMAGES OF WOMEN’ CRITICISM (2003) (1)
Simone de Beauvoir, the Feminist Icon Dedicated to Freedom for All Humanity (2008) (1)
The master builder ; and, other plays : with Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When we dead awaken (2014) (1)
Review. Recent Writings on French Women. Weitz, Margaret Collins, Femmes (1987) (1)
The art of transformation: art, marriage, and freedom in The lady from the sea (2009) (1)
WOMEN WRITING AND WRITING ABOUT WOMEN (2003) (1)
Review. Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century. Wenzel, Helene Vivienne (ed.) (1988) (1)
PATRIARCHAL REFLECTIONS : Luce Irigaray’s looking-glass (2003) (1)
A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Edited by Gill Plain and Susan Sellers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+352. (2010) (0)
Les RÃ©fÃ©rences anglaises de la modernitÃ© viennoise. (SÃ©rie germanique 7) by <given-names>Silvie</given-names> <surname>Arlaud</surname>Journaux intimes viennois. (Perspectives critiques) by <given-names>Jacques</given-names> <surname>Le Rider</surname> (review) (2011) (0)
Review. Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing. Miller, Nancy K. (1991) (0)
Part I. Wittgenstein (2019) (0)
Henrik Ibsen et l'idéalisme. Repenser l'histoire littéraire du xixe siècle (2007) (0)
25. Access to the Universal: Language, Literature, and the Humanities (2012) (0)
Part II. Differences (2019) (0)
Review. Theory as Fiction. Bowie, Malcolm, Freud, Proust and Lacan. (1987) (0)
Reviews : Leo Bersani, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, £15.45, 126 pp (1988) (0)
Philosophy and Autobiography (2020) (0)
Review. The Knowledge of Ignorance. From Genesis to Jules Verne. Martin, Andrew (1986) (0)
‘To make them other, and face them’: Literature, Philosophy and ‘La Femme rompue’ (2017) (0)
She came to say (1986) (0)
Review. Feminism in France. From May '68 to Mitterrand. Duchen, Claire (1987) (0)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Feminist Readings of Virginia Woolf (1985) (0)
Taking Thinking Seriously (1996) (0)
Part III. Reading (2019) (0)
Feminism and Feminist Scholarship Today (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
TWO FEMINIST CLASSICS (2003) (0)
Books Received (2002) (0)
THE PAST TWENTY YEARS HAVE SEEN A BEAUVOIR REVIVAL IN FEMI- (2009) (0)
A Note on Translations and Abbreviations (2019) (0)
"I am a Woman": The Body as Background in The Second Sex (1999) (0)
Psykoanalys, feminism och politik. Ett samtal med Juliet Mitchell (2022) (0)
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson (2020) (0)
Marketing plan: Avon and Mattel Inc (2014) (0)
Access to the Universal (2012) (0)
Visual Arts (0)
ground-clearing, provocative arguments, the book is a pleasure to read, a work of theory that will resonate in different critical and conversational situations: in graduate classes as a useful entry point into existing approaches to character, or in first-year literature (2022) (0)
The Literary Politics of Gender (1988) (0)
Review. Cousins, Mark and Hussain, Athar, Michel Foucault (1986) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
VI: THE ANTINOMIES OF FEMINISM: BEAUVOIR (2011) (0)
Review. Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories. McPherson, Karen S. (1996) (0)
READING THROUGH PREFACES (2011) (0)
Ingeborg Löfgren, Interpretive Skepticism. Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation. (Skrifter utgivna av Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Uppsala universitet, 47). Uppsala universitet. Uppsala 2015 (2016) (0)
Dossier : la fin du pétrole (2006) (0)
"SHASHI DESHPANDE'S NOVELS: A STUDY IN FEMINISM" (2021) (0)
Review. Women, Language and Literature. An Annotated Bibliography. Gelfand, Elissa D., and Hules, Virginia Thorndike, French Feminist Criticism (1987) (0)
The Question of the New (2023) (0)
THE A DVENTURE O F R EADING: LITERATURE A ND PHILOSOPHY, C AVELL AND B EAUVOIR (2011) (0)
Discourse and Ideology (1986) (0)
Review. Cross-References. Modern French Theory and the Practice of Criticism. Kelley, David and Llasera, Isabelle (eds) (1987) (0)

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