num_pages: 246
description: What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory.
language: English
title: Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
titlecomplete: Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
genres: Theory, Grad School, Academic, Philosophy, Nonfiction, School, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 537
series: New Accents
publisher: Routledge