On ne naît pas femme, on le devient : the life of a sentence / edited by Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Bonnie, editor, contributor.

Ferrari, Martina, editor, contributor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 362 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Section I Intellectual History 7

Chapter 1 Before Beauvon, Before Butler: "Genre" and "Gender" in France and the Anglo-American World / Karen Offen Offen, Karen 11

Chapter 2 Beauvoir Against Objectivism: The Operation of the Norm in Beauvoir and Butler / Bonnie Mann Mann, Bonnie 37

Section II History of a Scandal 55

Chapter 3 The Silencing of Simone de Beauvoir: Guess What's Missing from The Second Sex / Margaret A. Simons Simons, Margaret A. 59

Chapter 4 While We Wait: The English Translation of The Second Sex / Toril Moi Moi, Toril 71

Chapter 5 The Adulteress Wife / Toril Moi Moi, Toril 103

Chapter 6 Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Review of the New Translation) / Nancy Bauer Bauer, Nancy 115

Chapter 7 The Grand Rectification: The Second Sex / Meryl Altman Altman, Meryl 127

Section III The Philosophers' Debate 137

Chapter 8 The Floating "a" / Debra Bergoffen Bergoffen, Debra 143

Chapter 9 Becoming A Woman: Reading Beauvoir's Response to the Woman Question / Megan M. Burke Burke, Megan M. 159

Chapter 10 The Phenomenal Body Is Not Born; It Comes to Be a Body-Subject: Interpreting The Second Sex / Carmen López Sáenz Sáenz, Carmen López 175

Chapter 11 Woman Does Not Become Her / Janine Jones Jones, Janine 201

Chapter 12 The Second Sex of Consciousness: A New Temporality and Ontology for Beauvoir's "Becoming a Woman" / Jennifer McWeeny McWeeny, Jennifer 231

Section IV The Labor of Translation 275

Chapter 13 The Life of a Sentence: Translation as a Lived Experience / Constance Borde Borde, Constance, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila 279

Chapter 14 Challenges in Translating Beauvoir / Marybeth Timmermann Timmermann, Marybeth 287

Chapter 15 French Women Become, German Women Are Made? Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Schwarzer, Translation and Quotation / Anna-Lisa Baumeister Baumeister, Anna-Lisa 297

Chapter 16 Becoming Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and Drugi pal in Socialist Yugoslavia / Anna Bogic Bogic, Anna 315

Chapter 17 Retranslating The Second Sex into Finnish: Choices, Practices, and Ideas / Erika Ruonakoski Ruonakoski, Erika 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: On ne naît pas femme, on le devient...

ISBN:

9780190608828

019060882X

Publisher Number:

40027414032

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