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- Feminist Writings
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- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Beauvoir Series
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The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women.
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women.
Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
Table of Contents
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- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 1. French Women Writers
- Introduction
- pp. 19-23
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- pp. 24-29
- Women of Letters
- pp. 30-34
- 2. Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- pp. 37-41
- Femininity: The Trap
- pp. 42-48
- 3. A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Introduction
- pp. 51-57
- 4. Short Feminist Texts from the Fifties and Sixties
- Introduction
- pp. 69-75
- Preface to Family Planning
- pp. 81-83
- Preface to The Great Fear of Loving
- pp. 84-87
- The Condition of Women
- pp. 88-96
- What Love Is—and Isn't
- pp. 99-102
- Love and Politics
- pp. 103-106
- 5. Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- pp. 109-113
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- pp. 114-126
- 6. The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- pp. 129-131
- The Situation of Women Today
- pp. 132-146
- 7. Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- pp. 149-154
- Women and Creativity
- pp. 155-170
- 8. Foreword to History: A Novel
- Introduction
- pp. 173-175
- Foreword to History: A Novel
- pp. 176-178
- 9. The MLF and the Bobigny Affair
- Introduction
- pp. 181-191
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- pp. 209-215
- Abortion and the Poor
- pp. 216-218
- Beauvoir's Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- pp. 219-222
- 10. Short Feminists Text from the Seventies and Eighties
- Introduction
- pp. 231-239
- Everyday Sexism
- pp. 240-241
- League of Women's Rights Manifesto
- pp. 242-245
- Preface to Divorce in France
- pp. 246-249
- Introduction to Women Insist
- pp. 250-252
- Preface to Through Women's Eyes
- pp. 253-255
- When All the Women of the World . . .
- pp. 256-257
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- pp. 258-259
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- pp. 265-267
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- pp. 273-276
- 11. Preface to Mihloud
- Introduction
- pp. 279-281
- Preface to Mihloud
- pp. 282-286
- Contributors
- pp. 287-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252097171
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039003, 9780252085925
MARC Record
OCLC
904398597
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2015-03-11
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2021