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Book SynopsisThese essays reinterpret Simone de Beauvoir's relationship to existentialism and the problem of her relationship to feminism.
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Feminists Reading The Second Sex/Jo-Ann Pilardi
2. The Second Sex and Philosophy/Karen Vintges (Translated by Anne Lavelle)
3. Simone de Beauvoir: Falling into (Ambiguous) Line/Michèle Le Dœuff (Translated by Margaret A. Simons)
4. Can a Woman be a Philosopher? Reflections of a Beauvoirian Housemaid/Eleanore Holveck
5. Simone de Beauvoir: Teaching Sartre About Freedom/Sonia Kruks
6. Sartre's Secret Key/Kate Fullbrook and Edward Fullbrook
7. A response to a letter from Peg Simons, December 1993/Jeffner Allen
8. Simone de Beauvoir's Woman: Eunuch or Male?/Céline T. Léon
9. Beauvoir's Concept of Bodily Alienation/Kristana Arp
10. Out from Under: Beauvoir's Philosophy of the Erotic/Debra B. Bergoffen
11. Sexuality in Beauvoir's Les Mandarins/Barbara Klaw
12. Beauvoir's Two Senses of "Body" in The Second Sex/Julie K. Ward
13. The Second Sex: From Marxism to Radical Feminism/Margaret A. Simons
14. Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Postcolonial Ethics/Julien Murphy
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