Ebook: Beauvoir and the second sex: feminism, race, and the origins of existentialism
Author: Beauvoir Simone de, Simons Margaret A
- Tags: Aufsatzsammlung, Beauvoir Simone de, Beauvoir Simone de / Le deuxième sexe, SWD-ID: 40991295, Existentialism, Feminism, Race relations, Race relations--Philosophy, Criticism interpretation etc, Beauvoir Simone de -- 1908-1986. -- Deuxième sexe, Beauvoir Simone de -- 1908-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation, Race relations -- Philosophy, Beauvoir -- Simone de -- Diskriminierung -- Frau, Beauvoir -- Simone de -- Frauenbewegung, Beauvoir Simone de -- 1908-1986, Deuxième sexe (Beauvoir Simone de), B
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: Lanham;Md
- Language: English
- epub
In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity. Simons also draws on her experience as a Women's Liberation organizer as she witnessed how women used The Second Sex in defining the foundations of radical feminism. Bringing together her work as both activist and...