Simone de Beauvoir : the making of an intellectual woman
by
Moi, Toril.
Title
:
Simone de Beauvoir : the making of an intellectual woman
Author
:
Moi, Toril.
ISBN
:
9780199238729
9780199238712
Personal Author
:
Moi, Toril.
Edition
:
2nd ed.
Publication Information
:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
:
xii, 349 p. ; 24 cm.
General Note
:
Previous ed.: Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Contents
:
1. Second only to Sartre -- 2. The making of an intellectual woman -- 3. Politics and the intellectual woman: clichés and commonplaces in the reception of Simone de Beauvoir -- 4. L'Invitée: and existentialist melodrama -- 5. Freedom and flirtation: the personal and the philosophical in Sartre and Beauvoir -- 6. Ambiguous women: alienation and the body in The second sex -- 7. Beauvoir's utopia: the politics of The second sex -- 8. The scandal of loneliness and separation: the writing of depression.
Abstract
:
"How did Simone de Beauvoir become Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century? Toril Moi blends biography with literary criticism, feminist theory, and historical and social analysis, to provide a provocative and original account of Beauvoir's education and formation as an intellectual." "In a second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir, published 100 years after Beauvoir's birth, Toril Moi provides a major new introduction discussing the recent publication of papers and letters by Beauvoir, including her letters to her lovers Jacques-Laurent Bost and Nelson Algren, and her student diaries from 1926/7."--BOOK JACKET.
Personal Subject
:
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Subject Term
:
Women authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women intellectuals -- France -- Biography.
Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic Term
:
France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168023697598 | 848.91409 M712S 2008 | 1 |