Feminist Writings
Feminist Writings
$117.32
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2015
Summary
The philosopher’s writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir’s more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir’s career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a “conve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252039003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252039009 |
| Author: | Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 626g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Beauvoir Series |
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015.— A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015.
About The Author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and The Second Sex (1949). Margaret A. Simons is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. Marybeth Timmermann is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir’s Philosophical Writings and “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir.
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