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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785466003321

Autore

Tidd Ursula

Titolo

Simone de Beauvoir [[electronic resource] /] / Ursula Tidd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-79618-6

9786612796180

1-86189-753-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Critical lives

Disciplina

843.912

848.91409

848/.91409

Soggetti

Women authors, French - 20th century

Women philosophers - France

Feminists - France

Authors, French - 20th century

Philosophers - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and select filmography.

Nota di contenuto

Simone deBeauvoir Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; 1 The Birth of an Intellectual; 2 The Problem of the Other; 3 The Discovery of History; 4 Becoming a Woman; 5 Bearing Witness; 6 The Death of the Other; 7 All Said and Done: Castor the Myth; References; Select Bibliography; Photo Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, "