Beauvoir in Time / Meryl Altman. Volume 348.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, Meryl, author.

Series:

Value inquiry book series

Value Inquiry Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (581 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Brill, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105701

ISBN:

9789004431218

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004431218

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access