Toril Moi

Toril Moi argues against creating a separate canon of women's texts by emphasizing the need to address sexual difference at both textual and institutional levels. She critiques the French feminist...

The title "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" references Edward Albee's play, which itself plays on "who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Moi critiques feminist misreadings of Woolf's work, arguing that...

Toril Moi critiques Elaine Showalter's view of Virginia Woolf's separation of politics and art by arguing that Showalter limits her analysis to a singular liberal humanist feminism. Showalter claims...

Toril Moi links the writings of Helene Cixous to utopias with Jacques Lacan’s concept of “the Imaginary.” Moi defines “the Imaginary” as a “space in which all difference has been abolished.” For Moi,...