This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.
This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.
Mary Evans is Professor of Women¿s Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is the editor of both editions of The Woman Question (Fontana, 1982 and Sage, 1994) and co-editor of the European Journal of Women¿s Studies.
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Introduction The Making of a Woman The Woman and the Words The Woman and Women The Personal and the Political Others Reading de Beauvoir Bibliography