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Books

  1. T. Moi. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman.  2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (With a major new introduction.)
  2. T. Moi. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy.  Oxford University Press, 2006: xvi + 396. Norwegian translation: Ibsens modernisme, translated by Agnete Øye (Oslo: Pax, 2006; 502 pp.)
  3.  Sex, Gender and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?.  Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (Contains the first two essays in What Is a Woman? and a new preface.)
  4.  What Is a Woman? and Other Essays.  Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, January, 1999. The two first chapters translated into Norwegian as two separate books.
  5.  Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman.  Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994: xii + 324. Translated into five languages: French (with a preface by Pierre Bourdieu), Norwegian (by the author), Swedish, German and Japanese
  6.  Feminist Theory and Simone de Beauvoir.  The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990.
  7.  Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory.  London and New York: Methuen, 1985. Translated into eleven languages: Spanish, German, Finnish, Korean, Chinese (twice), Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Greek, Russian. A 2nd edition with a new afterword appeared in 2002, published by Routledge.

Edited Volumes

  1.  French Feminist Thought. Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1987: x + 260.
  2.  The Kristeva Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, and New York: Columbia, 1986: viii + 327.

Special Issues

  1.  Materialist Feminism. SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly 93:4 (Fall, 1994).

Articles Accepted in Collection

  1. T. Moi. "Idealism." The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. Ed. Richard Eldridge. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009.

Introductions, Forewords, and Afterwords

    Articles in a Journal

    1. T. Moi. "“Om noen reaksjoner på Ibsens modernisme: Svar til Helland, Larsen og Humpal” [About some responses to Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Reply to Helland, Larsen and Humpal]." Edda 108:1 (2008): 57-68.
    2. T. Moi. "Henrik Ibsen et l'idéalisme: Repenser l'histoire littéraire du dix-neuvième siècle."  Translated by Nathalie Dupont. Études Germaniques 62:4 (Winter, 2007): 917-34.
    3. T. Moi. "“‘De er ikke alle skabte til at være mødre’: Natur, kultur og sosiale normer, eller hvordan Gro Nylander kan bli til ammepoliti uten at hun selv vil det” [‘They are not all made to be mothers’: Nature, culture and social norms, or how Gro Nylander can become the breastfeeding police without wanting to],." Samtiden :3 (2007): 4-19. Excerpt reprinted as an op-ed piece in the daily paper Klassekampen, 24 September 2007, p. 16.
    4. T. Moi. "“First and Foremost a Human Being” / “Prima di tutto e sopratutto, un essere umano”."  Special bilingual Ibsen issue. Leggendaria (Roma) :58-59 (October, 2006): 10-14; 48-52.
    5. T. Moi. "‘I Am Not a Feminist, But…’ How Feminism Became the F-word." PMLA 121:5 (October, 2006): 1735-41.
    6. T. Moi. "“‘First and Foremost a Human Being’”: Idealism, Theater and Gender in A Doll’s House." Modern Drama 49:3 (Fall, 2006): 256-84.
    7. T. Moi. "“‘Først og fremst et menneske’: Kjønn, kropp og teater i Et dukkehjem,” [‘First and foremost a human being’: Gender, body and theater in A Doll’s House."  Translated from English by Agnete Øye. Samtiden :1 (Spring, 2006): 69-82.
    8. T. Moi. "Terje Vigen: An Idealist Triumph." Scandinavian Review 94:2 (Autumn-Winter 2006): 57-61.
    9. "Førsteopposisjon ved Knut Olav Åmås' disputas, Bergen 6 April 2005."  The text of my formal "opposition" at Knut Olav Åmås's defense of his doctoral thesis, a biography of the Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge. Norsk Litterær Årbok  (2005): 201-23.
    10. "Kjetil Jakobsen, Kritikk av den reine autonomi: Ibsen, verden og de norske intellektuelle ."  Formal "opposition" at Kjetil Jakobsen's defense of his doctoral thesis:"Critique of pure autonomy: Ibsen, the world and Norwegian intellectuals." Edda :2 (2005): 99-109.
    11. "Ibsen, Theatre, and the Ideology of Modernism." Theatre Survey 45:2 (November, 2004): 247-52.
    12. "From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan and Feminism, Again." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29:3 (Spring, 2004): 841-78. [Reprinted in Iréne Matthis, ed., Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender, and Psychoanalysis (London: Karnac Books, 2004, pp. 93-135]
    13. "Å mene det vi sier: om de intellektuelles ansvar ("Meaning What We Say: The Responsibility of Intellectuals")." Samtiden 1 (2004): 60-75.
    14. "A Woman's Struggle for Self Expression: Theatricality and Modernity in Nora's Tarantella." Devil-may-care: The Nordic Pavillion at the 50th Venice Biennal 2003  (2003): 150-157.
    15. "'It Was As If He Meant Something Different From What He Said - All the Time': Language, Metaphysics and the Everyday in 'The Wild Duck'." New Literary History 33:4 (Fall, 2002): 639-69.
    16. "While We Wait: The English Translation of The Second Sex." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27:4 (Summer, 2002): 1005-36. [Reprinted in Emily R. Grosholz, ed. The Philosophical Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 2004, 37-68.]
    17. "Corinne - kvinnenes grunnleggende modernitetsmyte (Corinne - Women's Fundamental Myth of Modernity)." Samtiden (Oslo) 2 (2002): 72-83. Swedish translation: “Corinne – kvinnornas grundläggande modernitetsmyt.” Trans. Åsa Arping. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidsskrift no 3, 2004: 23-33.
    18. "Ibsen lever hvis teatret tør ("Ibsen lives if the theatre dares")." Aftenposten (Oslo)  (15 September 2002): 13.
    19. "The Politics of Theory." The Yearly Review  (2001).
    20. ""I Am a Woman": The Body as Background in The Second Sex." Paroles Gelées 17:2 (1999): 1-19. German translation: ""Ich bin eine Frau": Der Körper als Hintergrund in Das andere Geschlecht" in Die Philosophin 10.20 (Oktober 1999): 13-30. Danish translation: ""Jeg er en kvinde". Kroppen som baggrund i Det andet køn." in Kvinder, køn og forskning 8.2 (1999): 6-19.
    21. "Vad är en kvinna? Kön och genus i feministisk teori ("What Is a Woman? Sex and Gender in Feminist Theory")."  Translation of early version of the title essay of "What Is a Woman?" Res Publica  (Spring, 1997): 71-158.
    22. "The Challenge of the Particular Case: Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture and Literary Criticism." MLQ (Modern Language Quarterly) 58:4 (1997): 497-508.
    23. "Hva er en kvinne? Feministisk teori og subjektivitet ("What Is a Woman? Feminist Theory and Subjectivity")." Litteratur og kjønn i Norden: Papers from the 1994 IASS Conference ("Literature and Gender in the Nordic Countries: Papers from the 1994 International Association of Scandinavian Studies Conference")  (1996): 9-20.
    24. "Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Politics: An interview with Juliet Mitchell." SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly 93:4 (Fall, 1994): 925-49.
    25. "Beauvoir's Utopia: The Politics of The Second Sex." SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly 92:2 (1993): 311-61.
    26. "Pakter, depressioner och skrivande ("Pacts, depressions and writing.")."  Trans. Ulla Rosén Divan (Stockholm) 6 (1993): 4-17.
    27. "Det finnes ingen store kvinnelige kunstnere: Simone de Beauvoir om kvinnelighet og kreativitet. ("There has never been any great women artists: Simone de Beauvoir on femininity and creativity.")." Kunsthåndverk (Oslo) 49 (1993): 22-27.
    28. "Nederlag eller frigjøring: Simone de Beauvoirs møte med Jean-Paul Sartre. ("Defeat or liberation: on Beauvoir's encounter with Sartre.")." Kritikkjournalen (Oslo) 2 (1993): 76-85.
    29. "'She Died Because She Came Too Late...': Knowledge, Doubles and Death in Thomas's 'Tristan'.." Exemplaria 4:1 (1992): 103-31.
    30. "Ambiguity and Alienation in 'The Second Sex.'."  (1994 Reprinted in the book version of this issue. Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke, eds., Feminism and Postmodernism. Durham, NC: Duke U Press: 86-102)) boundary 2 19:2 (1992): 96-112.
    31. "Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture." New Literary History 22:4 (1991): 1017-1049. – Translated into Norwegian as "Å tilegne seg Bourdieu. Feministisk teori og Pierre Bourdieus kultursosiologi," trans. Kari Marstein, in Irene Iversen, ed., Feministisk litteraturteori (Oslo: Pax, 2002), 252-79. – Reprinted in Terry Lovell, ed., Feminist Cultural Studies (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995). : – Translated into Swedish as "Att erövra Bourdieu," trans. Inger Henrysson, Kvinnovetenskaplig Tidskrift, 1 (1994): 3-25.
    32. "'L'Invitée': An Existentialist Melodrama." Paragraph 14:2 (1991): 151-69.
    33. "Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman."  [1990: Translated into Finnish as “Erään naisintellektuellin synty.” Pirjo Ahokas and Lea Rojola (eds.), Marginalista muutokseen. Turku yliopiston offsetpaino: Turku, 39-69.] Yale Journal of Criticism 4:1 (1990): 1-23.
    34. "Simone de Beauvoir -- politiken och den intellektuella kvinnan."  "Simone de Beauvoir--politics and the intellectual woman" Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift Stockholm4 (1988): 3-14.
    35. "Feminism, Postmodernism and Style: recent feminist criticism in the US." Cultural Critique 9 (1988): 3-22. [1990: Reprinted in Terry Lovell (ed.), British Feminist Thought. Oxford: Blackwell: 367-76. 1990: Reprinted in Danuta Zadworna-Fjellestad and Lennart Björk (eds.), Criticism in the Twilight Zone: Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Politics. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International: 34-46. Followed by “Discussion after Toril Moi’s Paper,” 47-51. 2004: Reprinted in Andrew Milner, ed., Postwar British Critical Thought, Oxford: Sage Publications]
    36. "Simone de Beauvoir--politiken och den intellektuella kvinnan. (“Simone de Beauvoir--politics and the intellectual woman")." Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift (Stockholm) 4 (1988): 3-14.
    37. "The truth of feminism." Edda 4 (1988): 361-2.
    38. "Depresjonens svarte sol: Julia Kristevas nyeste bok. (“The Black Sun of Depression: Julia Kristeva’s new book.”)." Vinduet 4 (1987): 25-30. Review essay on Julia Kristeva, Soleil noir: dépression et mélancolie. Translated in an edited version as “Depression är uteblivet sörjande.” Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm) 29 October 1990: B3.
    39. "Kjønn og makt: teoretiske perspektiver. (“Sex and Power: Theoretical Perspectives.”)." Nytt om kvinneforskning 2 (1987): 4-6.
    40. "Existentialism and Feminism: The Rhetoric of Biology in 'The Second Sex'."  [1987: Reprinted in Arbeidsnotat 2/87 (“Kjønn og makt: teoretiske perspektiver”), Oslo: NAVFs sekretariat for kvinneforskning og kvinner i forskning: 83-90.] Sexual Difference, Special Issue of The Oxford Literary Review  (June, 1986): 88-95.
    41. "Hele verden en scene: Karen Blixens novelle “Storme”. (“All the world’s a stage: Karen Blixen’s short story “Tempests”.”)." Edda 2 (1986): 149-61.
    42. "Fra kvinnelitteraturforskning til feministisk litteraturteori (“From Women’s Literature to Feminist Literary Theory.”)." Nytt om kvinneforskning 1 (1986): 12-17.
    43. "“She Came to Stay”: Review essay on Mary Evans, 'Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin' and Judith Okely’s 'Simone de Beauvoir.'." Paragraph 8 (1986): 110-20.
    44. "Simone de Beauvoir: in memoriam." Modern and Contemporary France 27 (1986): 26-27.
    45. "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist Readings of Woolf." Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 9:1-2 (1985): 133-47.
    46. "Kvinnetekst, kvinnespråk, kvinneteori: Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères. (“Women’s text, women’s language, women's theory: Wittig’s novel Les Guérillères")." Tribune  (1985): 2-28.
    47. "Power, Sex and Subjectivity: Feminist Reflections on Foucault.." Paragraph 5 (1985): 95-102.
    48. "Hva er kvinneforskning? Noen synspunkter til en debatt. (“What is feminist research? Some points towards a debate.”)." Replikk 1 (1985): 5-9.
    49. "“The Case of Dora” and “Feminist Readings of Dora.”." Desire (ICA Documents)  (1984): 3, 16-17.
    50. "The Missing Mother: René Girard’s Oedipal Rivalries.." Diacritics 12:2 (1983): 21-31.
    51. "Musen og moren: En sammenligning av Mallarmés “Apparition” og Desnos’ “Coeur en bouche”. (“Muse and Mother: A Comparison of Mallarmé’s “Apparition” and Desnos’ “Coeur en bouche”." Edda 1 (1983): 13-18.
    52. "Narcissisme som forsvar: Ibsens Hedda Gabler. (“Narcissism as defence: Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.”)." Eigenproduksjon 18 (1983): 43-61.
    53. "Jealousy and Sexual Difference." Feminist Review 11 (1982): 53-68.
    54. "Myten om den myke mann og den store kjærligheten: Ketil Bjørnstads Vinterbyen. (“Mythical Men and Mythical Love: Ketil Bjørnstad’s Vinterbyen.”)." Vinduet 1 (1982): 57-63.
    55. "Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud’s Dora." Feminist Review 9 (1981): 60-74. – Reprinted in Eigenproduksjon (Bergen) 18 (1983): 62-76. – Reprinted in Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane (eds.), In Dora’s Case: Feminism - Psychoanalysis - Hysteria (New York: Columbia University Press and London: Virago, 1985), 181-99. – Reprinted 1990, in the second, expanded edition of the same book. – Reprinted in Laurence Spurling, ed., Sigmund Freud: Critical Assessments, vol. 2: The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis (London: Routledge, 1989), 181-95. – Reprinted in Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, eds., Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies (New York: Longman, 1993). – Translated in Jessica Benjamin, ed. Ungewisser Inhalt: Beiträge zur feministischen Psychologie(Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuchverlag), 1994.
    56. "Kvinne, språk og frigjøring: Marie Cardinals roman Les mots pour le dire sett i relasjon til nyere fransk kvinnelitteratur. (“Women, Language, Liberation: Marie Cardinal’s Les Mots pour le dire in relation to recent literature by women in France.”)." Edda 1 (1981): 47-58.
    57. "Den kvinnelige utopi. (“Women’s Utopia.”)." Vinduet 2 (1981): 32-38.
    58. "Litteraturforskning og politikk: om det teoretiske grunnlaget for kvinnelitteraturforskninga (“Literature and politics: on the theoretical basis for feminist literary criticism.”)." Kontrast 6 (1981): 44-51.

    Articles in a Collection

    1. T. Moi. "“Peer Gynt i eksil: Meditasjoner om norskhet” [Peer Gynt in exile: Meditations on the fact of being Norwegian]." Per Gynt Stemnet, 1. - 12. august2007 Ed. Rasmus Stauri,. December, 2007, 11-18.
    2. T. Moi. "“Språkets tvangstrøye: Om poststrukturalistisk språkteori og queer teori” [The Linguistic Straitjacket: On the Poststructuralist Theory of Language and Queer Theory]." Når heteroseksualiteten må forklare seg [When heterosexuality must explain itself] Ed. Trine Annfelt, Britt Andersen and Agnes Bolsø. Tapir Akademisk Forlag, Trondheim, Norway, 2007, 223-41. (ISBN 9788251922524)
    3. T. Moi. "Ibsen, Theatre and the Ideology of Modernism." Modern Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Ed. Martin Puchner. Routledge (London), 2007, forthcoming. This is a reprint of a brief essay that first appeared in Theater Survey 45.2 (2004): 247-52.
    4.  "Conflicts in Ibsen's Early Aesthetics: St. John's Night as an Idealist Failure." Ibsen on the Cusp of the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Asbjørn Aarseth Ed. Pål Bjørby, Alvhild Dvergsdal and Idar Stegane. Laksevåg: Alvheim & Eide Akademisk Forlag, 2005, 113-23.
    5.  "Expressive Freedom: Melodrama in Rosmersholm." I skriftas lys og teatersalens mørke: Ei bok om Ibsen og Fosse Ed. Gunnar Foss. Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget, 2005, 81-107.
    6.  "Meaning What We Say: The 'Politics of Theory' and the Responsibility of Intellectuals." The Philosophical Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir Ed. Emily Grosholz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 139-60. Trans. by the author as: "Å mene det vi sier: om de intellektuelles ansvar", Samtiden, no. 1 (2003), 60-67
    7.  "Emperor and Galilean: Ibsen's Modern Breakthrough." Olga Tobreluts: Emperor and Galilean. Oslo: The Henrik Ibsen Foundation, 2003, 57-59. (Exhibition Catalogue)
    8.  "Feminist Theory After Theory: Toril Moi in Conversation with Michael Payne." Life After Theory Ed. John Schad and Michael Payne. London: Continuum, 2003, 133-67. Translated into Turkish, by Agora Books (2005).
    9.  "While We Wait: The English Translation of 'The Second Sex'." The Philosophical Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir Ed. Emily Grosholz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (Originally in "Signs: Journal of women in Culture and Society" 27.4 (Summer 2002))
    10.  "Dolls and the Fear of Non-Existence / Dukker og frykten for ikke å eksistere." Et dukkehjem Ed. Selene Wendt. Høvikodden: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, September, 2002, 44-47 and 88-89. (Exhibition Catalogue.)
    11.  "A Woman's Desire to be Known: Silence and Expressivity in Corinne." Untrodden Regions of the Mind: Romanticism and Psychoanalysis Ed. Ghislaine McDayter. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002, 143-75.
    12.  "Ibsen's Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics: Pillars of Society and The Wild Duck." Proceedings 9th International Ibsen Conference Bergen 5-10 June 2000 Ed. Pål Bjørbye and Asbjørn Aarseth. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide, 2001, 29-47.
    13.  "Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism." Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture Ed. Peter Brooks and Alex Woloch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, 71-92. (Sweish Translation by Moa Matthis: "Är anatomin ödet?" in "Divan," no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 14-29)
    14.  "Freedom and Flirtation." Situating Sartre in Twentieth Century Thought and Culture Ed. Jean-François Fourny and Dennis Minahen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, 111-128.
    15.  "'What's the difference?': Om Stanley Cavells lesning av Paul de Man ("'What's the Difference?' On Stanley Cavell's reading of Paul de Man")." Perifraser til Per Buvik på 50-årsdagen. Bergen: Litteraturvitenskapelig Institutt, 1995, 142-176.
    16.  "Simone de Beauvoir." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
    17.  ""I Desire the Law": La traviata or the Misguided Daughter." Violetta and Her Sisters: The Lady of the Camellias. Responses to the Myth. Ed. Nicholas John. London: Faber and Faber, 1994, 142-5.
    18.  "Personal Genealogy: The Subject as Text." Love and War: Individet i krig og kjærlighet. Ed. Jørgen Bakke, Lasse Hodne and Henning Laugerud. Bergen: Senter for europeiske kulturstudier, 1993, 165-172.
    19.  "Transference/Countertransference." Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Critical Dictionary Ed. Elizabeth Wright. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992, 431-5.
    20.  "Men Against Patriarchy.." Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism Ed. Linda Kauffmann. Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1989, 181-8.
    21.  "Patriarchal Thought and the Drive for Knowledge." Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis Ed. Teresa Brennan. London and New York: Routledge, 1989, 189-205. ([1992: Translated into German as “Patriarchales Denken und der Wisstrieb.” In Barbara Vinken (ed.). Dekonstruktiver Feminismus: Litteraturwissenschaft in Amerika. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 412-35.])
    22.  "1949/Simone de Beauvoir Publishes Le deuxième sexe: An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France." A New History of French Literature Ed. Denis Hollier. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard, 1989, 982-8. ([1993: Translated into French in Denis Hollier, ed. De la littérature française. Paris: Bordas, 924-9.])
    23.  "Desire in Language: Andreas Capellanus and the Controversy of Courtly Love." Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology & History Ed. David Aers. Brighton: Harvester, 1986, 11-33.
    24.  "Feminist Literary Criticism." Modern Literary Theory Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey. 2nd editionLondon: Batsford, 1986, 204-21. [1989: An edited version reprinted under the title “Feminist, female, feminine.” Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore (eds.). The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism ( London: Macmillan; and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell). 115-32.] Translated into Finnish, Estonian and Italian.
    25.  "Psykoanalyse, subjektivitet og politikk: Julia Kristeva--en innføring. (“Psychoanalysis, subjectivity and politics: an introduction to Julia Kristeva.”)." Norsk Litterær Årbok. Oslo: Det norske samlaget, 1986, 151-68.
    26.  "Fra skogen til skrivepulten eller faren ved den kvinnelige kreativitet: En lesning av Bjørg Viks novelle ‘På bussen er det fint.’ (“That dangerous female creativity: Bjørg Vik’s short story ‘It’s nice on the bus.’”)." Litteratur og psykoanalyse Ed. Irene Engelstad. Oslo: Pax, 1985, 127-49.
    27.  "Sexual/Textual Politics." The Politics of Theory: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, July 1982. Ed. Francis Barker. University of Essex, Colchester, 1983, 1-14.
    28.  "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Sartre’s Les Mots." The State of Literary Theory Today:Proceedings from the International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Middlesex: Middlesex Polytechnic, 1982, 52-64.

    Book Reviews

    1. T. Moi, ""Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. Review of Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27."". Bookforum 14:1 (April, 2007): 37-38. [114]
    2.  "Review of Peter Miller’s film The Internationale". Political Communication 20:3 (Summer, 2003): 351-52.
    3.  "Review of Linda Nochlin, Hvorfor har det ikke vært noen store kvinnelige kunstnere? (Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?)". Morgenbladet  (May 23, 2003): 12.
    4.  ""Menns titaniske streben etter transcendens" (Men's Titanic Striving for Transcendence). Review of Atle Kittang, Ibsens heroisme: Fra Brand til Når vi døde vågner". Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift 6:1 (2003): 67-77.
    5.  "Review of Judith Butler, "Antigone's Choice."". Svenska Dagbladet  (January 2001): 9.
    6.  "Review of Martha Nussbaum, "Women and Human Development."". Svenska Dagbladet  (December 4, 2000): 7.
    7.  "Man måste mena vad man säger (“One Has to Mean What One Says.”) Review of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s "Le siècle de Sartre"". Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm)  (May, 2000): 16.
    8.  "To små skritt. (“Two small steps.”) Review of Cathrine Sandnes, Beate Nossum og Christina Smith-Erichsen (red.), "Matriark: Nesten sanne historier om å være kvinne" and Hilde Charlotte Solheim og Helle Vaagland (red.), "Råtekst."". Klassekampen  (January, 2000): 14-15.
    9.  "Review of Joan Templeton, "Ibsen’s Women"". Ibsen Studies 1:1 (2000): 104-7.
    10.  "Presentation of "Kron og mynt" by Kjartan Fløgstad". Dagens Bøker 11 (September, 1998): 3-4.
    11.  "Review of Torill Steinfeld, "Den unge Camilla Collett: et kvinnehjertes historie"". Bergens Tidende  (June, 1997).
    12.  ""Skriver kvinnan som en man?" (Do women write like men?) Review of Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy". Dagens Nyheter  (February 4, 1996): B3.
    13.  "Review of Karen S. McPherson, "Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories"". French Studies 50:4 (1996): 63.
    14.  "Review of Janneken Øverland, "Cora Sandel"". Bergens Tidende  (December, 1995): 24.
    15.  "Review of Lynne Huffer, "Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing"". French Forum 20 (May, 1995): 250-2.
    16.  "Simones sanna systrar (“Simone’s true sisters”). Review of Claudia Lindén and Ulrika Milles, eds., "Feministisk bruksanvisning." Trans. by Nils Schwartz.". Expressen (Stockholm)  (April, 1995): 4.
    17.  "Review of Josyane Savigneau, "Marguerite Yourcenar"". News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)  (December, 1993): 4G.
    18.  "Review of "Fadershuset" (“The Father’s House: A History of Nordic Women’s Literature”, vol. 2: 1800-1900). Translated by Nils Schwartz". Expressen (Stockholm)  (December, 1993): 5.
    19.  "Kravlöst nöje. (“Undemanding Entertainment.”) Review of Deirdre Bair, "Simone de Beauvoir: A biography."". Dagens Nyheter  (January, 1992): B2.
    20.  "Femininity Revisited. Review article on Elizabeth Grosz, 'Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction,' John Lechte, 'Julia Kristiva' and Helen Wilcox et al,. 'The Body and the Text: Hélène Cixous, Reading and Teaching'". Gender Studies (Hull, UK) 1:3 (1992): 324-34.
    21.  "De Beauvoir skriver brev till Sartre. (“When Beauvoir writes letters to Sartre.”) Trans. Jens Nordenhök". Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)  (May 28, 1991): B1 & B3.
    22.  "Nya roller--på en annan scen. (“New roles--on a different scene.”) Review of Luce Irigaray, "Je, tu, nous." Translated by Cecilia Sjöholm". Aftonbladet  (May 12, 1991): Kultur 2-3.
    23.  "Vad har penis med fallos at göra? (“What does the penis have to do with the phallus?”) Review of Jurgen Reeder, "Begär och etik. Om kön och kärlek i den fallocentriska ordningen." Translated by Hans Ruin". Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)  (February, 1991): B3.
    24.  "Sartre borde skämmas. (“Shame on Sartre.”) Trans. by Sara Danius. Review of Michèle Le Doeuff, "Hipparchia’s Choice"". Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)  (June 19, 1990): B3.
    25.  ""Variations on difference." Review of Michèle Le Doeuff, "L’étude et le rouet and Elizabeth Grosz, Sexual Subversions."". Liber. Supplement to "The Times Literary Supplement" 2:2 (June 8-14, 1990): 13.
    26.  "Livet bakom teorin. (“Life behind the theory.”) Trans. by Stefan Jonsson. Review of Julia Kristeva, "Les Samouraïs"". Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)  (April 10, 1990): B3.
    27.  ""Utbildning är ett opium för folket" (Education is the opium of the people). Review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Noblesse d’Etat: grandes écoles et esprit de corps". Dagens Nyheter  (February 27, 1990): B3. Trans. by Otto Mannheimer.
    28.  "An Unknowable Woman. Review of Joan DeJean, "Fictions of Sappho 1546-1937" and of Terence DuQuesne, "Sappho of Lesbos: The Poems."". Times Literary Supplement  (August 31 - September 6, 1990): 913.
    29.  "Review of Nancy K. Miller, "Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing"". French Studies 65:1 (1990): 112-12.
    30.  "Review of Michel Foucault, "Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other writings 1977-1984." Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman". French Studies 64:2 (1990): 370-1.
    31.  "Review of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (ed.), "Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature."". Free Associations 17 (1989): 126-32.
    32.  "Review of Ebba Witt-Brattström, "Moa Martinsson--skrift och drift i trettiotalet."". Kvinnovetenskaplig tidsskrift (Stockholm) 1 (1989): 70-4.
    33.  "Review of Ruth Sherry, "Studying Women’s Writing."". Edda 4 (1989): 361-2.
    34.  "Review of Barbara Johnson, "A World of Difference."". Sub-Stance 59 (18.2) (1989): 120-2.
    35.  "Review of Hélène Vivienne Wenzel (ed.), "Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century."". French Studies 62:1 (1988): 118.
    36.  "Review of Odd Martin Mæland (ed.), "Mellom tekst og tekst"". Edda 4 (1988): 363-5.
    37.  "Review of Leo Bersani, "The Freudian Body."". The History of the Human Sciences 1:2 (1988): 276-9.
    38.  "Review of Nicole Ward Jouve, "Colette."". Modern and Contemporary France 34 (1988): 90-1.
    39.  "Review of M.C. Weitz, "Femmes: Recent Writings on French Women" and E.D. Gelfand and V. T. Hules, "French Feminist Criticism: Women, Language and Literature. An Annotated Bibliography."". French Studies 61:1 (1987): 114-16.
    40.  "Review of Julia Kristeva, "Revolution in Poetic Language."". French Studies 61:1 (1987): 112.
    41.  "Review of Claire Duchen, "Feminism in France: From May “68 to Mitterand."". French Studies 61:4 (1987): 494.
    42.  "Review of Malcolm Bowie, "Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction."". French Studies 61:4 (1987): 469-70.
    43.  "Amtmanninnens datter. Review of E. Möller Jensen, "Emancipation som lidenskab: Camilla Colletts liv og værk."". Edda 2 (1987): 182-5.
    44.  "Review of David Kelley and Isabelle Llasera (eds.), "Cross-References: Modern French Theory and the Practice of Criticism."". French Studies 61:3 (1987): 224.
    45.  "“Vive la Différence.”". The Women’s Review 5 (March, 1986): 30-1.
    46.  "Review of Hélène Cixous, "Angst."". The Women’s Review 3 (January, 1986): 40-1.
    47.  "Feminine Textuality: A View of Hélène Cixous. Review of Verena Andermatt Conley, "Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine."". Quinquereme: New Studies in Modern Languages 9:1 (1986): 80-3.
    48.  "Review of Mark Cousins and Athar Hussain, "Michel Foucault."". French Studies 60:1 (1986): 113.
    49.  "Review of Andrew Martin, "The Knowledge of Ignorance."". French Studies 60:2 (1986): 146-7.
    50.  "Review of Anne-Catherine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Åse Hiorth Lervik (eds.), "Oppbrudd. Skrivende kvinner over hele verden."". Edda 3 (1986): 93-4.
    51.  "Review of Mari Osmundsen, "Gode gjerninger."". Kjerringråd 40/41 (1985): 88-9.
    52.  "Review of Arild Kolstad, "Inga Olsens vei mot velstand og lykke."". Kjerringråd 42 (1985): 62-4.
    53.  "Review of Rakel Christina Granaas et al., "Kvinnesyn, tvisyn" (essays on Sigrid Undset)". Kjerringråd 44 (1985): 36-7.
    54.  "Review of Elin Brodin, "Den krydrede vin."". Kritikkjournalen (Oslo)  (1985).
    55.  "Review of Karin Moe, "39 Fyk."". Kritikkjournalen (Oslo)  (1983): 6-7.
    56.  "Review of Thomas Bredsdorff, "Tristans børn: Angående digtning om kærlighed og ægteskab i den borgerlige epoke."". Edda 4 (1982): 257-60.
    57.  "Review of Hans Jørgen Nielsen, "Fotballengelen."". Kontrast 3 (1981): 61-2.
    58.  "Review of Lisa Alther, "Arvesynder" (Original sins) and Marge Piercy, "Kvinne ved tidens rand" (Woman on the Edge of Time)". Samtidslitteratur 81 (1981): 6-7.
    59.  "Review of "Norske noveller 1981", "Noveller i Samtiden", "Så stor du er blitt."". Samtidslitteratur 81  (1981): 93-4.
    60.  "Review of Birgitta Holm, "Fredrika Bremer och den borgerliga romanens födelse."". Kontrast 7/8 (1981): 79-80.

    Program Notes

    1. T. Moi. "“First and Foremost a Human Being”, Program Note for the Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival (King’s Theatre, 24-28 August 2007), 4 pages (not paginated). 2007.
    2. T. Moi. "Anna, Emma, Hedda: The Rise and Fall of Adultery." Program Note for The Gate Theatre, Dublin (Ireland) for a production of Anna Karenina, December, 2006.
    3. T. Moi. "“Frihet, likhet og kjærlighet i Et Dukkehjem” (Freedom, equality and love in A Doll’s House)." Program note for Juni Dahr’s production of Et Dukkehjem i Wesselsgate 15, Oslo, May, 2006.
    4. T. Moi. "“Riget og magten og æren”: Om Ibsen og kjærligheten” (“‘The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory’: On Ibsen and love”)." Program note for Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, directed by Hilda Hellwig, Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockhom), February, 2006.
    5. T. Moi. "“The Lady of the Camellias”." Program note for Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, December, 2004.
    6. "Hedda Gabler." Program note for Nationaltheatret, Oslo, Spring 2002.
    7. "Emperor and Galilean." Program note for Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, May, 2000.
    8. "Hedda Gabler." Program note for the Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, April, 2000.
    9. "Bringing Up Baby." Program note for Oslo Cinematheque Summer Program, 2000: 28.
    10. "Det vidunderlige kommer ikke sånn til hverdags (“Something glorious does not happen every day”) On Ibsen’s A Doll’s House." Jubel: Nationaltheatrets jubileumsmagasin, August, 1999: 48-9.
    11. "The Philadelphia Story." Program note for Oslo Cinematheque Summer Program, 1999: 124-5.
    12. "What does Carmen Want? The Enigma of Carmen." Program Note for Carmen, English National Opera at the London Coliseum, 1986/87. (1987: Reprinted in The Twelfth Season, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, 50 and 78.) (1989: Reprinted in Winter Season 1989, Dublin Grand Opera, Ireland, 18-20.) (1991: Translated into Swedish as a Programme Note for Carmen at the Stockholm Opera, 37-42.)

    Occasional Writing

    1. T. Moi. ""Det avgjørende bokvalget" (The decisive [s]election of books)." Dagens Næringsliv  (February 16, 2008): ???.
    2. T. Moi. ""Simone de Beauvoir"." The New Humanist  (February, 2008): ??.
    3. T. Moi. "’It changed my life!’ Everyone should read Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex." The Guardian (London)  (January 12, 2008). [html]
    4. T. Moi. ""Hellre frihet än lycka" [Freedom rather than happiness]." Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm). Trans. Stefan Jonsson.  (January 12, 2008): 4-5.
    5. T. Moi. ""Ledende klisjéer" [Clichés and leadership]." Dagens Næringsliv  (January 5, 2008): 86-7.
    6. T. Moi. "“Adjø, solidaritet” [Good-Bye, Solidarity]." Dagens Næringsliv  (November 24, 2007): 110-11.
    7. T. Moi. "“Tørketid” [A Time of Drought]." Dagens Næringsliv  (October 13, 2007): 126-7.
    8. T. Moi. "“Debattfeber” [Debate fever]." Dagens Næringsliv  (September 1, 2007): 126-7.
    9. T. Moi. "“System for sleipe karrierister” [A System for Careerists or What Is a Book Worth?]." Dagens Næringsliv  (July 21, 2007): 86-7.
    10. T. Moi. "“Peer Gynt i Mojaveørkenen” [Peer Gynt in the Mojave Desert]." Dagens Næringsliv  (June 9, 2007): 126-27.
    11. T. Moi. "“Kunst og politikk” [Art and Politics]." Dagens Næringsliv  (April 28, 2007): 110-11.
    12. T. Moi. ""En ren sjel i et rent hjem" [A Clean Soul in a Clean House]." Dagens Næringsliv  (March 17, 2007): 118-19.
    13. T. Moi. "“Skrev Ibsen om kvinner?” [Did Ibsen Write About Women?]."  Web magazine published by the Ministry for Children and Equal Rights (Norway) Familia  (Fall, 2006). [html]
    14. T. Moi. ""Dr. Stockmann’s Ambiguities: Notes on An Enemy of the People"."  The 2006/07 Season Asides Magazine (The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC.)  (Fall, 2006): 2-3. [articles.aspx]
    15. T. Moi. "“Zadie Smith og tradisjonen” [Zadie Smith and tradition]." Samtiden :3 (Fall, 2006): 4-5.
    16. T. Moi. "“Ibsen as Analyst of Power: A Scene from The Lady from the Sea”." Nora's Sisters (Oslo: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)  (Fall, 2006): 57-63. This little book has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese and Spanish.
    17. T. Moi. ""Make It New: Why Emperor and Galilean Still Matters"." News of Norway :2 (Summer, 2006): 13. [htm]
    18. T. Moi. "“Universitetsskandalen” [The University Scandal]."  About the Duke Lacrosse scandal. Dagbladet  (June 14, 2006): 48-9.
    19. T. Moi. "“Ibsen – fange i to fengsler” (Ibsen – prisoner in two prisons)." Klassekampen  (May 23, 2006): 4-6. Czech translation by Barbora Zavodska for the online magazine Literatura [clanek.asp]
    20. T. Moi. "“Kortversjonen: Stanley Cavells The Claim of Reason” [In brief: Stanley Cavell’s The Claim of Reason]." Prosa :1 (Spring, 2006): 53.
    21. T. Moi. "“Er du feminist?” [Are you a feminist?]." Morgenbladet  (January 27, 2006): 40.
    22. T. Moi. "“Krigen mot julen” [The war against Christmas]." Morgenbladet  (December 23, 2005): 18.
    23. T. Moi. "“Sannhet og metode” [Truth and method]." Morgenbladet  (December 2, 2005): 40.
    24. "Øverstkommanderende [Commander in Chief]." Morgenbladet  (November 11, 2005).
    25. "Filosofiske stylter [Philosophical stilts]." Morgenbladet  (October 21, 2005).
    26. "Jentene ved Yale [The women at Yale]." Morgenbladet  (September 30, 2005).
    27. "Friheten er på fremmarsj [Freedom is on the march]." Morgenbladet  (September 9, 2005).
    28. "Ibsen - og hvem? [Ibsen - and who?]." Morgenbladet  (August 12, 2005).
    29. "Et tynt nett over avgrunnen ["A thin net over the abyss"]." Morgenbladet  (July 22, 2005).
    30. ""Det andra könet måste först befrias" [The Second Sex Must Be Liberated First]." Dagens Nyheter  (August 25, 2004): 4.
    31. ""Min siste spalte" [My last column]." Morgenbladet  (May 28, 2004): 48.
    32. ""Ibsen and USA nå" [Ibsen and the USA now]." Morgenbladet  (May 14, 2004): 48.
    33. ""Det meningsløse språket" [Meaningless language]." Morgenbladet  (April 30, 2004): 48.
    34. ""Edisjonsfilologiens betydning" [The importance of critical editions]." Morgenbladet  (April 16, 2004): 40.
    35. ""Forhandlingsfobi" [Fear of negotiations]." Morgenbladet  (March 26, 2004): 40.
    36. ""Uklar tale" [Unclear speech]." Morgenbladet  (March 12, 2004): 40.
    37. ""Alt dette kvinnelige" [All this femininity]." Morgenbladet  (February 27, 2004): 40.
    38. ""Samfunnets grunnvoll?" [The foundation of society?]." Morgenbladet  (February 12, 2004): 48.
    39. ""Kameliadamen" [The Lady of the Camellias]." Morgenbladet  (January 30, 2004): 48. Reprinted as a Programme Note in Den nationale scene's production of Alexandre Dumas's The Lady of the Camellias, December 2004 (Bergen, Norway).
    40. "“Hva betyr et navn?” [What’s in a name?]." Morgenbladet  (January 16, 2004).
    41. "“Moderskapsmaset” [Harping on motherhood]." Morgenbladet  (January 2, 2004).
    42. "“En ren og ubesudlet norsk sjel” [A pure and unblemished Norwegian soul]." Morgenbladet  (December 12, 2003): 48.
    43. "“Kjønnsforskning og biologi” [Gender Research and Biology]." Morgenbladet  (November 28, 2003): 56.
    44. "“Kvinnene i Kabul” [The Women of Kabul]." Morgenbladet  (November 14, 2003): 46.
    45. "Discussion or Agression? Arrogance and Despair in Graduate School.." The GRIND: The Graduate Student Newsletter 4:1 (Fall, 2003): 4-5.
    46. "“Ibsen lever hvis teatret tør” [Ibsen lives if the theatre dares to]." Aftenposten 15 (September, 2002): 13.
    47. "Tyrefektingens estetikk (The Aesthetics of Bullfighting)." Morgenbladet (Oslo)  (18 - 24 October 2002): 8.
    48. "“Vilse i kvinnligheten” [Lost in femininity -- Essay on Freud and women]." Dagens Nyheter  (April 10, 2001): B5.
    49. "“Hundre år til: Om frihet og feminisme ved årtusenskiftet” (“Another Hundred Years: On Freedom and Feminism at the Turn of the Milennium.”."  [Reprinted in a book for use in Norwegian schools, November 2000] Dagsavisen (Oslo)  (December 28, 1999): 18-19.
    50. "“Virilitetens uendelige skrøpelighet: en feminist på tyrefekting” (“The infinite vulnerability of virility: a feminist at the bullfights”)." Aftenposten  (July 11, 1999): 8.
    51. "“Beauvoirs stil”. (“Beauvoir’s style”)." Bang (Sweden) 3 (1996): 7-8.
    52. "“Declaring independence.” Essay on Simone de Beauvoir."  [1996: Reprinted in David Perkins, ed. Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books That Changed Their Lives. Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press. 131-5.] News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)  (March 27, 1994): G1 & G3.
    53. "“Pornografi.” (“Pornography.”)." Bergens Tidende  (June 18, 1987): 52.

    Interviews

    1. "Interview with Toril Moi, by Mark Thwaite." The Book Depository UK (a web site)  (January, 2008). [viewarticle.php]
    2. Toril Moi, Susana Bornéo Funck and Rita Terezinha Schmidt.. "“Liberdade, justiça et igualdade para as mulheres: uma entrevista com Toril Moi” (“Freedom, Justice and Equality for Women: Interview with Toril Moi.")."  Trans. Maria Isabel de Castro Lima. Revista Estudios feministas (Brazil) 15:1 (January-April 2007): 107-22.
    3. Toril Moi and Jeffrey Williams. "What Is an Intellectual Woman? An Interview with Toril Moi." Minnesota Review :67 (Fall 2006): 65-82. [interview_moi.shtml]
    4. T. Moi. "“Ibsens modernisme: Toril Moi i samtale med Cathrine Holst og Tore Rem,” [Ibsen’s modernism: Toril Moi in conversation with Cathrine Holst and Tore Rem]." Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 23:1 (2006): 18-29.
    5. "Pornografi og fantasi: om kvinner, klær og filosofi. (“Pornography and imagination: about women, clothes and philosophy.”) Interview with Angela Carter.." Vinduet 4 (1984): 17-21.

    Translation of a Book

    1.  Røyksopp (Translation of Fay Weldon, "Puffball").  Gyldendal, 1983
    2.  Praxis (Translation of Fay Weldon, "Praxis").  Gyldendal, 1982
    3.  Svarte billetter (Translation of Jayne Anne Phillips, "Black Tickets").  Pax: Oslo, 1982
    4.  Julis folk (Translation of Nadine Gordimer, "July’s People".  Gyldendal: Oslo, 1982
    5.  Den forheksede leketøysbutikken (Translation of Angela Carter, "The Magic Toyshop.").  Gyldendal: Oslo, 1982
    6.  Venninner (Translation of Fay Weldon, "Female Friends").  Gyldendal: Oslo, 1981

    Translation in a Journal

    1. T. Moi, trans. Fra kvinnelighet til begrensethet: Freud, Lacan og feminisme, nok en gang. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (Norway)  (Spring 2008): forthcoming. This is a translation of “From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan, and Feminism, Again,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29. 3 (Spring 2004), 841-78.  Trans. Agnete Øye
    2. with Eleanor Kaufmann, trans. Sandrine Garcia, “Histoire d’un projet de révolution symbolique.” Trans. as “Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Women’s Movement in France.”. SAQ (South Atlantic Quarterly) 93.4 (Fall, 1994): 825-69.
    3.  En datters erindringer (Translation of Jayne Anne Phillips, “Reminiscences to a Daughter.”). Vinduet 4 (1982): 25-33.

    Translation in a Collection

    1. with Arnstein Bjørkly, trans. Fra en identitet til en annen. (Translation of Julia Kristeva, “D’une identité l’autre.”). Moderne Litteraturteori. Ed. Atle Kittang et. al.. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1991
     

     
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