Bibliograph

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Simone de Beauvoir, the making of an intellectual woman, Toril Moi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-334) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Simone de Beauvoir

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

173498623

Responsibility statement

Toril Moi

Sub title

the making of an intellectual woman

Summary

"In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century. Blending biography with literary criticism, feminist theory, and historical and social analysis, this book provides a completely original analysis of Beauvoir's education and formation as an intellectual."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

Part I. Second only to Sartre -- The making of an intellectual woman -- Politics and the intellectual woman : clichés and commonplaces in the reception of Simone de Beauvoir -- Part II. L'Invitée : an existentialist melodrama -- Freedom and flirtation : the personal and the philosophical in Sartre and Beauvoir -- Ambiguous women : alienation and the body in The second sex -- Beauvoir's utopia : the politics of The second sex -- Part III. The scandal of loneliness and separation : the writing of depression

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