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Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader  
Author: Elizabeth Fallaize (Editor)
ISBN: 0415147034
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Tikkun
"...brings together some of the most significant articles published by feminist theorists analyzing the breadth and depth of [Beauvoir]...."


Choice
"...for any undergraduate or general reader."


Book Description
This long-awaited volume gathers together all the classic critical texts on Simone de Beauvoir's work as a feminist, novelist and philosopher. The essays are divided into three sections examining her fiction, her life and her famous work The Second Sex. In a compelling introduction Elizabeth Fallaize examines how de Beauvoir's work has been read over time, contextualises those readings within the evolution of feminism, and looks at her changing role within contemporary culture and thought. The contributors to this collection include: Hazel Barnes, Jane Heath, Elaine Marks, Ann Ophir, Francis Jeanson, Alex Hughes, Poirot-Delphech, Nourissier Francois, Francois Mauriac, Judith Oakley, Michele Le Doeuff, Penny Forster and Imogen Sutton, and Toril Moi.


About the Author
Elizabeth Fallaize is a lecturer at St. John's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on Simone de Beauvoir.




Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This long-awaited volume gathers together all the classic critical texts on Simone de Beauvoir's work as a feminist, novelist and philosopher. The essays are divided into three sections examining her fiction, her life and her famous work The Second Sex. In a compelling

introduction Elizabeth Fallaize examines how de Beauvoir's work has been read over time, contextualises those readings within the evolution of feminism, and looks at her changing role within contemporary culture and thought. The contributors to this collection include: Hazel Barnes, Jane

Heath, Elaine Marks, Ann Ophir, Francis Jeanson, Alex Hughes, Poirot-Delphech, Nourissier Francois, Francois Mauriac, Judith Oakley, Michele Le Doeuff, Penny Forster and Imogen Sutton, and Toril Moi.

FROM THE CRITICS

Tikkun Magazine

This collection brings together some of the most significant articles published by feminist theorists analyzing the breadth and depth of a woman whose close association with Jean Paul Sartre may have allowed others to undervalue her significance.

Booknews

Twelve critical readings of De Beauvoirs's , her autobiography, and her fiction (including and ) explore the changing nature of the debates and controversies over her writings and try to offer a sense of the differing theoretical and cultural assumptions which readers have brought to their engagement with her work. Also includes an introduction which contextualizes De Beauvoir's writing within the evolution of feminism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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