Simone de Beauvoir : a critical reader / edited by Elizabeth Fallaize.

Other author Fallaize, Elizabeth.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 1998.
Descriptionx, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Readings of The second sex. Rereading The second sex / Judith Okely -- Sex and gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second sex / Judith Butler -- Beauvoir : the weight of situation / Sonia Kruks -- "Independent women" and "Narratives of liberation" / Toril Moi -- The master-slave dialectic in The second sex / Eva Lundgren-Gothlin -- Readings of the autobiography. The father in Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Francis Jeanson -- Murdering the mother in Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Alex Hughes -- Encounters with death in A very easy death and The body in decline in Adieux : a farewell to Sartre / Elaine Marks -- Readings of the fiction. Self-encounter in She came to stay / Hazel Barnes -- She came to stay : the phallus strikes back / Jane Heath -- Mythical discourse in "The woman destroyed" / Anne Ophir -- Narrative strategies and sexual politics in Beauvoir's fiction / Elizabeth Fallaize.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
LCCN 97044992
ISBN0415147026 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415147034 (alk. paper)