Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism / Nancy Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Nancy, 1960- author.

Series:

Gender and Culture Series.

Gender and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Feminism.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Other Title:

Simone de Beauvoir, philosophy, and feminism

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

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. This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir's discovery of a new way to philosophize-a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of The Second Sex, Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Recounting Woman

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

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

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

CHAPTER 4. The Conditions of Hell: Sartre on Hegel

CHAPTER 5. Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel: Pyrrhus et Cinéas and The Ethics of Ambiguity

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

CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Self in The Second Sex

NOTES

REFERENCES CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0231529171

9780231529174

OCLC:

818858258