Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir

Book Overview

For almost twenty years, feminist readings of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist classic The Second Sex have been dominated by dismissive interpretation of Beauvoir's philosophy as Sartrean and phallocentric. Beauvoir's angry refusal to acknowledge either her philosophical originality or her lesbian relationships led to an interpretive impasse on two issues: her relationship to existentialism and her relationship to feminism. It was not until Beauvoir's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101413X
• ISBN13: 9780271014135
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"