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Beauvoir, Simone De - sēmônˈ də bōvwärˈ, 1908–86, French author. A leading exponent of the existentialist movement, she is closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre. Beauvoir taught philosophy at several colleges until 1943, after which she devoted herself to writing. Her novels All Men Are Mortal (1946, tr. 1955), The Blood of Others (1946

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The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir » Read Now
by Claudia Card. 336 pgs.

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Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine the major aspects of her thought. They explore her views on the role of...
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Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine the major aspects of her thought. They explore her views on the role of biology, sexuality and sexual difference, and evil; the influence on her work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and others; and the philosophical significance of her memoirs and fiction.
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Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism » Read Now
by Nancy Bauer. 301 pgs.

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In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show...
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In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir's discovery of a new way to philosophize -- a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of The Second Sex, Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical.
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Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography » Read Now
by Jo-Ann Pilardi. 133 pgs.

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The development of Simone de Beauvoir's notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self are isolated: the existential notion of the self and the "gendered self," which she developed in The Second Sex, and which represents a...
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The development of Simone de Beauvoir's notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self are isolated: the existential notion of the self and the "gendered self," which she developed in The Second Sex, and which represents a major departure from existential philosophy. Beginning with a study of her early essays, the author proceeds to discuss Beauvoir's major philosophical works and her autobiographical writings where three personae emerge--the child, the woman in love, and the writer. This analysis highlights the innovative quality of Beauvoir's thought. It also shows that writing an autobiography can be a philosophically inventive enterprise and one in which Beauvoir created her most profound analysis of the self.
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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend » Read Now
by Kate Fullbrook, Edward Fullbrook. 214 pgs.

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...SIMONE de BEAUVOIR and JEAN-PAUL SARTRE SIMONE de BEAUVOIR and JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fullbrook...
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New French Feminisms: An Anthology ("Simone de Beauvoir" begins on p. 233) » Read Now
by Elaine Marks, Isabelle de Courtivron. 279 pgs.

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter » Read Now
by Simone de Beauvoir. 386 pgs.

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...MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER By Simone de Beauvoir SHE CAME TO STAY...MANDARINS THE LONG MARCH SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter...he was a nobody; the de...
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The Myth of the Heroine: The Female Bildungsroman in the Twentieth Century (Chap. 2 "Simone de Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter") » Read Now
by Esther Kleinbord Labovitz. 276 pgs.

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...Century Dorothy Richardson Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Christa...Century : Dorothy Richardson, Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Christa Wolf...Pilgrimage 11 Simone...
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Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony » Read Now
by Ursula Tidd. 250 pgs.

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This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with...
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This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with issues of gender, sexuality and race, as part of her auto/biographical strategy in seeking to write herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon. Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known philosophical and autobiographical texts.
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Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction ("Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism for Women" begins on p. 179) » Read Now
by Rosemarie Putnam Tong. 360 pgs.

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In this second edition of her 1989 survey on feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides a more comprehensive & substantially redrawn map of twentieth-century feminist thinking. Besides providing up-to-date coverage of liberal, radical (libertarian & cultural), & Marxist-socialist schools of feminism...
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In this second edition of her 1989 survey on feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides a more comprehensive & substantially redrawn map of twentieth-century feminist thinking. Besides providing up-to-date coverage of liberal, radical (libertarian & cultural), & Marxist-socialist schools of feminism, she covers psychoanalytic, existentialist, & postmodern feminism. All the chapters have been rethought & new chapters on ecofeminism & multicultural & global feminism have been added. Contents: Introduction. Liberal Feminism. Radical Feminism: Libertarian & Cultural Perspectives. Marxist-Socialist Feminism. Psychoanalytic & Gender Feminism. Existentialist Feminism. Postmodern Feminism. Multicultural & Global Feminism. Ecofeminism. Conclusion.
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Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Chap. 12 "Beauvoir's Philosophy as the Hidden Paradigm of Contemporary Feminism") » Read Now
by Tjitske Akkerman, Siep Stuurman. 246 pgs.

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Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode...
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Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.
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The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings (Chap. 4 "Simone de Beauvoir: Aging and Its Discontents") » Read Now
by Shari Benstock. 322 pgs.

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The Marquis de Sade » Read Now
by Simone de Beauvoir. 242 pgs.

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...MARQUIS DE SADE An Essay by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR With Selections from His Writings...GROVE PRESS NEW YORK Simone de Beauvoirs essay was originally published...PAGE SIMONE de...
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The Prime of Life » Read Now
by Simone de Beauvoir. 479 pgs.

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...THE PRIME OF LIFE By Simone de Beauvoir SHE CAME TO STAY ALL MEN...MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The Prime of Life Translated...young lady called...
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The Long March » Read Now
by Simone de Beauvoir. 516 pgs.

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...THE LONG MARCH By Simone de Beauvoir SHE CAME TO STAY ALL MEN ARE...MANDARINS THE LONG MARCH BY SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Translated by Austryn Wainhouse...impurities." That from...
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No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Chap. One "Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986: The Epistemology of Abortion") » Read Now
by Germain Kopaczynski. 247 pgs.

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This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion--each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.nbsp;...
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This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion--each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.nbsp; No Higher Court attempts to envisage a pro-life feminism that is able to provide a "new world for women without abortion as its linchpin and bedrock."
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Identity without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality » Read Now
by Mariam Fraser. 215 pgs.

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Situated at the crossroads of feminism, queer theory, and poststructuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book that addresses the different ways in which she is constructed as an intelligible "self" by academics, biographers and the media. It...
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Situated at the crossroads of feminism, queer theory, and poststructuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book that addresses the different ways in which she is constructed as an intelligible "self" by academics, biographers and the media. It shows how key Western concepts such as individuality constrain attempts to deconstruct the self and prevent bisexuality being understood as an identity. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari to see what this construction of bisexuality offers contemporary theories, it also critiques Foucault's work.
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