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The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
Claudia CardA convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.
Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...
PreviewChapter 15 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society Mark Kremer Introduction No book embodies the postwar ideals of democratic progress more than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second ...
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir
Karen VintgesPhilosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Letters to Sartre
Simone de BeauvoirNow backk in print, the lettes that caused a scandal wen first published, revealing de Beauvoir and Sartre as they had never been seen before.
Wartime Diary
Simone de BeauvoirProvocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime
Simone De Beauvoir
Lisa AppignanesiAccessible and affordable illustrated biography about a famous feminist
The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to de Beauvoir and the ...
Nancy BauerThe Routledge Guidebook to De Beauvoir and The Second Sexintroduces and assesses: De Beauvoir’s life and the background of The Second Sex The ideas and arguments of The Second Sex De Beauvoir’s continuing importance to feminist theory ...
Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
Nancy BauerThis book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex.
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Deirdre BairChronicles the life of the French writer, examining her roles as author, philosopher, feminist, and companion to Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing Against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir
Susan BainbriggeThe sheer volume of her autobiographical writings testifies to her indefatigable questioning of the nature of existence and her personal and public engagement in the world over the best part of a century.
French feminism reader
Kelly OliverThis collection includes selections by Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Colette Guilluamin, Monique Wittig, Michele Le Doeuff, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and Helene Cixious.
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: New Interdisciplinary ...
Ruth EvansThis collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this ...
Existentialism
Richard GravilAfter an Introduction examining the historical moment of Existentialism, as a product of wartime discipline and consciousness, this book sets out the thinking of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin ...
Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality
Mariam FraserIn the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the ...
Simone de Beauvoir revisited
Catharine Savage BrosmanThe book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work.Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works-- A brief biography of the author-- An accessible chronology ...
Death & Sex
Tyler VolkLinking evolutionary biology to salacious readings of the lives and thoughts of such notables as the Marquis de Sade and Simone de Beauvoir, and discussing works as varied as The Story of O and Silence of the Lambs, Sex touches on a ...
Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
Nancy Bauer" Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?
The Philosophy of (erotic) love
Robert C. SolomonWisdom from the world's best thinkers, past and present, on the subject of love. Includes selections from: Plato, Shakespeare, Milton, Spinoza, Hegel, Freud, Jung, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, D. H. Lawrence, Emma Goldman, and more.
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Simone de BeauvoirVintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.
French Feminist Theory: An Introduction
Dani CavallaroThese are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, ...
Old Stories, New Readings: The Transforming Power of ...
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The Trial of Madame Caillaux
Edward BerensonRecounts the murder trial of Madame Caillaux, wife of a French cabinet minister, who shot Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro and her husband's political enemy Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Theory Trading Cards
David GauntlettSet of cards featuring 21 social and cultural theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Marcel ...
De existentialisten: filosoferen over vrijheid, zijn en coctails
Sarah Bakewell‘De existentialisten’ van Sarah Bakewell vertelt het bewogen verhaal van een invloedrijke generatie denkers, waaronder Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre en Raymond Aron.
Nina Simone
Kerry AckerTraces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
Sounds Australian Update
More editionsInlcrnaiionally acclaimed conductor Simone Young has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Opera Australia, succeeding Moffatt Oxenbould who will be leaving at theend of the year 2001. From 2001, Simone will divide her time ...
Simone Martini Complete Edition
Andrew MartindaleA study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) whoas well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered lessmportant than Giotto and his followers.
Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...
Anne M. FrançoisTwo other essays in the collection analyze metaphors of exile in Simone Schwarz -Bart's Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979). ... Writing from Guadeloupe (2000); Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women ( 2001); ...
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