Simone de Beauvoir, philosophy, & feminism / Nancy Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Nancy, 1960-

Series:

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986. Deuxième sexe.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Simone de Beauvoir, philosophy, and feminism

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Summary:

In the introduction to "The Second Sex, " Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question "The Second Sex" dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. In exploring what it might mean to philosophize as a woman, Beauvoir produced a book that not only sparked the contemporary feminist movement but also, Bauer argues, made an important but still profoundly undervalued contribution to the philosophical tradition.

Contents:

Introduction: Recounting Woman 1

1. Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms? First Philosophy, The Second Sex, and The Third Wave 19

2. I Am a Woman, Therefrom I Think: The Second Sex and the Meditations 46

3. The Truth of Self-Certainty: A Rendering of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic 78

4. The Conditions of Hell: Sartre on Hegel 104

5. Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel: Pyrrhus et Cineas and The Ethics of Ambiguity 136

6. The Second Sex and the Master-Slave Dialectic 172

7. The Struggle for Self in The Second Sex 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-292) and index.

ISBN:

0231116640

0231116659

OCLC:

45661686