Sex, Gender, and the Body

This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman? A deeply original intervention in feminist theory, these essays rethink the legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, and show that The Second Sex, properly read, offers inspiring solutions to urgent contemporary problems. They provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a third way for feminism, beyond the current stalemate between essentialism and constructionism.