Toril Moi
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Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; on "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other."
Moi 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). She is the editor of The Kristeva Reader (1986), and of French Feminist Thought (1987). Her new book, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy, will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2006. A Norwegian translation will be published by Pax Forlag (Oslo) in spring 2006.
