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Simone de Beauvoir : creating a feminist existence in the world / Sadrine Sanos.
- Title
- Simone de Beauvoir : creating a feminist existence in the world / Sadrine Sanos.
- Author
- Sanos, Sandrine
- Publication
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2603.E362 S26 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Beauvoir's life and works in historical context, charting how she was enmeshed in most twentieth-century events and developments ranging from World War Two, to Decolonization, and to the Cold War. Her work considered numerous topics of contemporary relevance, like socialist politics, feminism, war crimes, human rights, and the possibilities and limits of political activism in support of social justice. Building on recent scholarship, this biography focuses especially on the colonial, transnational, and postcolonial influences that shaped Beauvoir and emphasizes her paradoxical and complicated relationship to politics. Written in accessible and lively prose, the book is divided into seven chapters and includes lesser-known photos of Beauvoir alongside primary sources of both historical and contemporary interest."--Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- World in a life
- Uniform Title
- World in a life.
- Alternative Title
- Creating a feminist existence in the world
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. "The Dutiful Daughter": Obligations, Hopes, And Possibilities, 1909 -- 1939 -- 2. Living Through The War: Responsibilities And Choices, 1939 -- 1944 -- 3. Becoming An Author: Desires, Dialogues, And Engagement, 1945 -- 1954 -- 4. Being A Woman: The Making Of A Feminist Philosophy, 1949 And After -- 5. Being Free In The World: Ethics And Engagement, 1954 -- 1964 -- 6. Acting In The World: Politics, Paradoxes, And Disillusions, 1961 -- 1970 -- 7. Reflecting On The World: Feminism, Fame, And Scandal, 1970 -- 1986 -- Primary Source Excerpts and Study Questions -- "An Eye for an Eye" (1946) -- Introduction to The Second Sex (1949) -- Introduction to Djamila Boupacha (1962) -- ch. 7 From The Force of Circumstance (1963) -- excerpt -- Introduction to The Bobigny Affair Report (1973) -- Further Reading.
- ISBN
- 0190278099
- 9780190278090
- OCLC
- 946815839
- SCSB-11194127
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library