BEAUVOIR AND "THE SECOND SEX" by Margaret A. Simons ( 9780742512467 )

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BEAUVOIR AND "THE SECOND SEX"
FEMINISM, RACE AND THE ORIGINS OF EXISTENTIALISM

By:

Margaret A. Simons

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0742512460

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Publisher:

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Pub. date:

28 December, 2000

Pages:

288

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Describing the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy, this text aims to show her contribution to 20th-century thought and her influence in laying the foundations of radical feminisim. The guide also addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood and lesbian identity.

Synopsis:

In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her hand-written diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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