Toril Moi

Simone de Beauvoir

The Making of an Intellectual Woman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For the second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir, Toril Moi provides a major new introduction discussing current developments in Beauvoir studies as well as the recent publication of papers and letters by Beauvoir, including her letters to her lovers Jacques-Laurent Bost and Nelson Agren, and her student diaries from 1926-7.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780199238729
• ISBN-10: 0199238723
• Artikelnr.: 27037028

Autorenporträt

Toril Moi was born and raised in Norway, and worked in England in the 1980s, before moving to Duke University in 1989, where she is now the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. She is the author of numerous influential books on feminist theory. Her study of Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism was published to wide critical acclaim in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction to the Second Edition
* Introduction
* PART I
* 1: Second Only to Sartre
* 2: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
* 3: Politics and the Intellectual Woman: Clichés and Commonplaces in
the Reception of Simone de Beauvoir
* PART II
* 4: L'Invitée: An Existentialist Melodrama
* 5: Freedom and Flirtation: The Personal and the Philosophical in
Sartre and Beauvoir
* 6: Ambiguous Women: Alienation and the Body in The Second Sex
* 7: Beauvoir's Utopia: The Politics of The Second Sex
* PART III
* 8: The Scandal of Loneliness and Separation: The Writing of
Depression
* Afterword
* Notes
* Works Cited