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Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

By Ursula Tidd

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521661307, 9780521661300
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1147734 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Pages
267\267
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-03-27 12:22:23

Description

This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with issues of gender, sexuality and race, as part of her auto/biographical strategy in seeking to write herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon. Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known philosophical and autobiographical texts.

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