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Anonymity and feminist identity : Simone de Beauvoir's Agon and ours / Laura Hengehold
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hengehold, Laura, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beauvoir, Simone de.
- Anonymous persons--Philosophy.
- Anonymous persons.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Women--Philosophy.
- Women.
- identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Situates anonymity with respect to women’s demands for recognition from one another despite differences of class, ethnicity and sexuality. Anonymity is a condition that both intrigues and terrifies us. Such emotions reflect historical inequities of power as well as the limits of human cognition and imagination. How do they affect women’s relationships at the emotional, philosophical, and political level? How might they inflect women’s responses to bullying, economic and academic competition, and even philosophical teaching and writing? Laura Hengehold uses Simone de Beauvoir’s novels and philosophical texts to provide insights into women’s hopes and fears regarding anonymity, while also acknowledging their desire to be recognized in a definitive sense as these particular human beings. In an age of rapidly changing identification technologies, Beauvoir’s works turn our attention to women’s ongoing struggles to individuate from one another and from men, in defiance of the presuppositions that resources and attention are scarce goods"-- De Gruyter Brill
- Contents:
- Woman and her doubles
- Mirages of alterity
- Indiscernible
- Struggle for recognition
- Useless mouths
- The politics of attention: multiple others, multiple worlds
- What can philosophy do?
- The bourgeoise in her Sunday best
- Whither recognition?
- A life that has never been only my own
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 11, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hengehold, Laura Anonymity and feminist identity
- ISBN:
- 9781399545471
- 1399545477
- 9781399545488
- 1399545485
- OCLC:
- 1591608075
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000379739
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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