Simone De Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman - Softcover

Moi, Moi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 063119181X ISBN 13: 9780631191810

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1993

Synopsis

Moving from the impact of educational institutions on Beauvoir to her representation of love, desire and sexuality, Toril Moi analyzes the conflicts and contradictions that shape intellectual women's lives. She offers an interpretation of Beauvoir's relationship to Sartre and to other women, and reads Beauvoir as a writer of depression. She also considers Beauvoir the greatest feminist theorist of our century and sees "The Second Sex" as the founding text for materialist feminism.

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Review:

Review from previous edition This book makes us discover a Beauvoir analysed with sympathy but without complaisance. A worthy Beauvoir emerges: not the super-woman one so often hears about, but a complex, suffering woman who finds it hard to be different except in her jealousy and sorrow. But, what strength and what courage! She opened the way, and this book does her justice. (Julia Kristeva)

Sympathetic and critical, Moi's impassioned study never loses sight of the difficulty of Beauvoir's intellectual and personal journey through her life, it will send its readers back to Beauvoir's writings with a new sense of political necessity and possibility for women. (Professor Jacqueline Rose, University of London)

a landmark study on Simone de Beauvoir...a pivotal work for study of Beauvoir's autobiographical oeuvre (Susan Bainbridge, Modern and Contemporary France)

Moi's brilliant analysis of her subject is de Beauvoir criticism at its very best, demonstrating that the richly stimulating text of Simone de Beauvoir deserves to be widely and well read. (Ursula Tidd, THES)

From the Publisher:

This book is being published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth on 9th January 2008

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 063119181X
• ISBN 13: 9780631191810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340