Elizabeth Fallaize (ed.)

Simone de Beauvoir

A Critical Reader
Herausgeber: Fallaize, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Simone de Beauvoir was a prolific writer and feminist, whose name has attracted a volatile mix of adulation and hostility. This collection of critical responses to a wide range of Beauvoir's writing explores the changing perceptions of the woman and explores why her work remains influential today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415147033
• ISBN-10: 0415147034
• Artikelnr.: 22385283

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Fallaize

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Elizabeth Fallaize. Part 1. Readings of The Second Sex. 1.
Rereading The Second SexJudith Okely 2. Sex and Gender in Simone de
Beauvoir's Second SexJudith Butler 3. The Weight of the Situation Sonia
Kruks Beauvoir 4. Independent Women and Narratives of Liberation Toril Moi
5. The Master-Slave Dialectic in The Second SexEva Lundgren-Gothlin Part 2.
Readings of the Autobiography. 6. The Father in Memoirs of a Dutiful
DaughterFrancis Jeanson 7. Murdering the Mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful
DaughterAlex Hughes 8. Encounters with Death in A Very Easy DeathElaine
Marks 9. The Body in Decline in Adieux: A Farewell to SartreElaine Marks
Part 3. Readings of Fiction. 10. Self-Encounter in She Came to StayHazel
Barnes 11. She Came to Stay: The Phallus Strikes Back Jane Heath 12.
Mythical Discourse in 'The Woman Destroyed Anne Ophir 13. Narrative
Strategies and Sexual Politics Elizabeth Fallaize Further Reading.