A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Laura Hengehold, Nancy Bauer.
• Editors: Hengehold, Laura; Bauer, Nancy
• Contents: Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1; Laura Hengehold Part I Re?reading The Second Sex 13 A. Reception and scholarship 13 1 Beauvoir’s Transdisciplinarity: From Philosophy to Gender Theory 15; Stella Sandford 2 The Intellectual and Social Context of The Second Sex 28; Sandra Reineke 3 “The Limits of the Abject.” The Reception of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949 37; Ingrid Galster 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited 47; Kathryn T. Gines 5 Two English Translations of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 59; Emily R. Grosholz B. Central Themes 71 6 Beauvoir and the Biological Body 73; Ruth Groenhout 7 Becoming Bodies 87; Emily Anne Parker 8 The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes 99; Emily Zakin 9 The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault 111; Mary Beth Mader 10 Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of Motherhood 122; Alison Stone 11 Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth 134; Sara Cohen Shabot 12 Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny 146; Nancy Bauer 13 Love – According to Simone de Beauvoir 160; Tove Pettersen 14 Why is Woman the Other? 174; Tanella Boni Part II Beauvoir’s Intellectual Engagements 185 15 Beauvoir and Hegel 187; Kimberly Hutchings 16 Simone de Beauvoir’s Relation to Hegel’s Absolute 198; Zeynep Direk 17 Beauvoir and Merleau?]Ponty 211; Jennifer McWeeny 18 Beauvoir and Merleau?]Ponty on Freedom and Authenticity 224; William Wilkerson 19 Beauvoir and the Marxism Question 236; Sonia Kruks 20 Beauvoir Between Structuralism and “Aleatory Materialism” 249; Eva D. Bahovec 21 Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre 260; Christine Daigle Part III Beyond The Second Sex 271 A. Beauvoir’s Ethics and Political Philosophy 271 22 “Pyrrhus and Cineas”: The Conditions of a Meaningful Life 273; Kristana Arp 23 Separation and Queer Connection in The Ethics of Ambiguity 286; Laura Hengehold 24 Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics 299; Lori J. Marso 25 Why Rape? Lessons from The Second Sex 311; Debra Bergoffen 26 Simone de Beauvoir, Women’s Oppression and Existential Freedom 325; Patricia Hill Collins B. Beauvoir and the Art of Philosophical Fiction 339 27 Beauvoir as Literary Writer 341; Meryl Altman 28 Simone de Beauvoir and the Dialectic of Desire in L’invitée 356; Anne van Leeuwen 29 The Failure of Female Identity in Simone de Beauvoir’s Fiction 367; Shannon M. Mussett 30 The Power of Literature: Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins and the Metaphysical Novel 379; Sally J. Scholz C. Beauvoir’s Scope: Memory, History, and Age 391 31 Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Autobiography 393; Margaret A. Simons 32 Witnessing Self, Witnessing Other in Beauvoir’s Life Writings 406; Ursula Tidd 33 Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Philosophy of History 418; Michel Kail 34 The Postwar World According to Beauvoir 429; William McBride 35 Afterlives: Beauvoir’s Old Age and the Intersections of The Second Sex 438; Penelope Deutscher Part IV Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism 449 36 Race after Beauvoir 451; Shannon Sullivan 37 Who Is the Subject of The Second Sex? Life, Science, and Transmasculine Embodiment in Beauvoir’s Chapter on Biology 463; A. Alexander Antonopoulos 38 Misunderstanding in Paris 478; Karen Vintges 39 Beauvoir’s Legacy to the Quartiers: The Changing Face of French Feminism 489; Diane Perpich 40 Second Languaging The Second Sex, Its Conceptual Genius: A Translingual Contemporization of “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.” 500; Kyoo Lee Index 514
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (552 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118795965
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