Feminist Writings (beauvoir Series)
by Simone de Beauvoir /
2015 / English / PDF
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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
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.
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.