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Tachas 629 • Dos clásicos feministas • Toril Moi

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By Es lo Cotidiano, Toril Moi
| Es lo Cotidiano
En los años 60, por primera vez desde que se legalizó el voto femenino, el feminismo surgió como importante fuerza política en el mundo occidental. Muchas mujeres reconocen ahora en la obra de Betty Friedan The Feminine Mistique, publicada en 1963, la primera prueba de que las mujeres americanas estaban cada vez más descontentas en la rica sociedad de la postguerra.
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Toril Moi and Malin Hay

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By Toril Moi, Malin Hay
| London Review of Books Verified
Your browser does not support the audio element. The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is a master of the collapsing relationship. In her twenty books, five of which have been translated into English, she turns her eye to estranged siblings, tormented lovers, demanding parents and disaffected colleagues with the same combination of philosophical penetration and sympathy. But she hasn’t always received the recognition afforded to her male peers.
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Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth

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By Toril Moi, Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund
| London Review of Books Verified
Norwegians​ make a fuss about first books. The newspapers publish round-ups of the year’s literary debutants, who are invited to writers’ workshops organised specially for them. In 1983, two young authors met at one such workshop in Sweden. The first was a 23-year-old man whose Raudt, svart (‘Red, Black’) was being promoted as a ‘bleak and intense first novel’, the coverage accompanied by a close-up photo of the writer puffing on a cigarette.
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