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Part I: A feminism of freedom - Simone de Beauvoir; what is a woman?sex, gender, and the body in feminist theory; I am a woman - the personal andthe philosophical. Part II: Appropriating theory - Bourdieu and Freud;appropriating Bourdieu - feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology ofculture; the challenge of the particular case - Bourdieu's sociology ofculture and literary criticism; the missing mother - Renee Girard's oedipalrivalries; representation of patriarchy - sexuality and epistemology inFreud's "Dora"; patriarchal thought and the drive for knowledge; is anatomydestiny? Freud and biological determinism. Part III: Desire and knowledge -reading texts of love; desire in language - Andreas Capellanus and thecontroversy of courtly love; she died because she came too late - knowledge,doubles and death in Thomas's "Tristan"; intentions and effects - rhetoricand identification in Simone de Beauvoir's "The Woman Destroyed".