Description
Offers a comprehensive guide to all of de Beauvoir's work in context, while maintaining a focus on her seminal text, The Second Sex
Covers both her works of fiction and autobiography and includes examples of her writing and key ideas in the areas of existentialism, gender, and identity, sexuality, the body and ethics
Explores her relevance to contemporary thought
The author has taught de Beauvoir for ten years in three British universities.
Table of Contents
WHY BEAUVOIR?; Part 1 KEY IDEAS; Chapter 1 EXISTENTIALISM; Chapter 2 ETHICS; Chapter 3 BECOMING WOMAN; Chapter 4 FEMINIST PRAXIS; Chapter 5 LITERATURE; Chapter 6 AGE; ab AFTER BEAUVOIR; fu1 FURTHER READING; wo1 WORKS CITED Index;
