Beauvoir in time
Beauvoir in Time' situates Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmod…
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- Full title :Beauvoir in time. / Meryl Altman.
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Beauvoir in Time' situates Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Koninklijke Brill NV
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
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- Description:570 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004431201, 9004431209
- oclc:on1191848872
- LC Classification:HQ1180-1186
- Dewey Decimal:305.407
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