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Toril Moi, from "Reciprocal Otherness: Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference", pub. The Point Magazine [ID'd]
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Toril Moi, from "Reciprocal Otherness: Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference", pub. The Point Magazine [ID'd]
The Adulteress Wife by Toril Moi, a review of the 2011 translation of The Second Sex
June Wrap Up
I’ve been waiting for June 2022 for over a year now, and it’s weird now that it’s ended. I got married on the 25th (pics to come!), and while it was perfect and beautiful, I am so freaking glad it’s over. 😆 The whole process and lead up was just exhausting. But now I can chill a little before I need to start freaking out about my exams.
Books Read: 10
This has been my best reading month of the year! My favorite was probably Juniper & Thorn even though it’s not actually the highest rated. And my least favorite was Rank and Beauty, which I only read one volume of. I couldn’t do the other two. I was so bored! Luckily Goodreads has the first volume as it’s own book, so I still got to count it.
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker - 4 stars
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - 4 stars
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman - 4 stars
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond - 5 stars
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine Showalter - 4 stars
Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid - 4.5 stars
Rank and Beauty; or the Young Baroness Vol. 1 by Anonymous - 2 stars
Sexual/Textual Politics by Toril Moi - 2.5 stars
Misrule by Heather Walter - 3.5 stars
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - 4.5 stars ®
On Tumblr:
There’s actually some stuff here! I participated in the Summer Readathon, though I only posted a few times, and there are some other odds and ends.
Summer Readathon 2022
May Wrap Up
Tagged: Spring Scavenger Hunt
Tagged: 9 People I Want to Know Better
Tagged: Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag
Reblogged: Fae Book Recommendations
On the Blog:
There’s stuff here too! A miracle! Not nearly as much as there should be considering all the books that came out in May I never reviewed...but hey, I’m trying!
Review: Blood Orange Night by Melissa Bond
Review: Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
On YouTube:
And a good assortment here.
May Wrap Up - 7 books!
Six Tudor Queens Book Tag
Currently Reading 6/13/22
Top 5 (Non-Victorian) English Novels Tag
New England Summer Reading Recommendations
Last Book Haul?
Reorganize My Bookshelf With Me!
July TBR - Jane Austen July, Exam Reading, and ARCs!
I am struck by her loneliness. She wanted to merge with the masses, to be anonymous and unobtrusive – a worker, a...
Today [...] theory and practice appear to be just as out of synch as they were by the end of the 1980s. The result is a kind of intellectual schizophrenia, in which one half of the brain continues to read women writers, while the other continues to think that the author is dead, and that the very word ‘woman’ is theoretically dodgy. No wonder then, that so many books and essays on women writers begin by a series of apologies. Usually, the writer begins by assuring us that she really doesn’t have anything against Barthes or Foucault; or that she isn’t really writing about real, living authors, but only about the figure of the author in the literary text; or that when she writes woman, she really means ‘woman’, and so on. Such formulations are symptoms of a theoretical malaise. Instead of supporting women interested in investigating women’s writing, our current theories appear to make them feel guilty, or – even worse – scare them away from working on women and writing altogether. This is one of the rare situations today in which I would argue that there actually is a need for more theory (or more philosophy, if you prefer). We actually need to be able to justify theoretically a kind of work that many women and men clearly think is important, and that has no problem at all justifying itself politically.
Toril Moi: “‘I am not a woman writer’: About women, literature and feminist theory today” (2008)
We begin, then, not with a method, but with our own sense of confusion.
Toril Moi, Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
Toril Moi
There are so many things in the world one could write about: why these questions and not some quite different ones? Some questions can only be answered by retelling a whole life.
Toril Moi, What is a Woman?: And Other Essays (2001), xvi