Drawing upon Beauvoir's literary and theoretical texts, this introduction to her thought guides the reader through the main areas of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, including: existentialism and ethics; gender studies and feminism; literature and autobiography; and sexuality, the body and ageing.[...]
This new biography of Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) is a concise, up-to-date, critical appraisal of the life and works of the quintessential feminist intellectual, best known for her pioneering work "Le Deuxieme Sexe" (1949). Drawing on the most recent scholarship on Beauvoir's work, and newly-publis[...]