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Author: Penny Forster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 168
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"Simone de Beauvoir was among the foremost French intellectuals of her time. Her remarkable autobiography, published in fours volumes throughout her life; and above all her classic feminist test 'The Second Sex', published in 1949, were all enormously influential in the development of modern feminist thinking. Her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre assumed an almost mythical quality for those who aspired to its independent free spirit. Yet her rigid Catholic upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with her mother and worship for her father; together with her devotion to Sartre and belief in his 'greater genius' , may serve to highlight the paradoxes of this great writer who inspired so many and who succeede in envoking a uniquely intimate realtionship between herself and her readers. In this lively volume, based on a highly-acclaimed flim made by Penny Porster and Imogen Sutton for the BBC series 'Bookmark' eleven women discuss the influence that de Beauvoir's life and work has had on them, on their generation and on younger women today." --Jacket.
Author: Penny Forster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
"Simone de Beauvoir was among the foremost French intellectuals of her time. Her remarkable autobiography, published in fours volumes throughout her life; and above all her classic feminist test 'The Second Sex', published in 1949, were all enormously influential in the development of modern feminist thinking. Her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre assumed an almost mythical quality for those who aspired to its independent free spirit. Yet her rigid Catholic upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with her mother and worship for her father; together with her devotion to Sartre and belief in his 'greater genius' , may serve to highlight the paradoxes of this great writer who inspired so many and who succeede in envoking a uniquely intimate realtionship between herself and her readers. In this lively volume, based on a highly-acclaimed flim made by Penny Porster and Imogen Sutton for the BBC series 'Bookmark' eleven women discuss the influence that de Beauvoir's life and work has had on them, on their generation and on younger women today." --Jacket.
Author: Penny Forster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
"Simone de Beauvoir was among the foremost French intellectuals of her time. Her remarkable autobiography, published in fours volumes throughout her life; and above all her classic feminist test 'The Second Sex', published in 1949, were all enormously influential in the development of modern feminist thinking. Her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre assumed an almost mythical quality for those who aspired to its independent free spirit. Yet her rigid Catholic upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with her mother and worship for her father; together with her devotion to Sartre and belief in his 'greater genius' , may serve to highlight the paradoxes of this great writer who inspired so many and who succeede in envoking a uniquely intimate realtionship between herself and her readers. In this lively volume, based on a highly-acclaimed flim made by Penny Porster and Imogen Sutton for the BBC series 'Bookmark' eleven women discuss the influence that de Beauvoir's life and work has had on them, on their generation and on younger women today." --Jacket.
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062566172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307832171 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic
Author: Lisa Greenwald Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496207556 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 425
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Daughters of 1968 is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage. The May 1968 events—with their embrace of radical individualism and antiauthoritarianism—triggered a break from the past, and the women’s movement split into two strands. One became universalist and intensely activist, the other particularist and less activist, distancing itself from contemporary feminism. This theoretical debate manifested itself in battles between women and organizations on the streets and in the courts. The history of French feminism is the history of women’s claims to individualism and citizenship that had been granted their male counterparts, at least in principle, in 1789. Yet French women have more often donned the mantle of particularism, advancing their contributions as mothers to prove their worth as citizens, than they have thrown it off, claiming absolute equality. The few exceptions, such as Simone de Beauvoir or the 1970s activists, illustrate the diversity and tensions within French feminism, as France moved from a corporatist and tradition-minded country to one marked by individualism and modernity.
Author: Deirdre Bair Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385542461 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
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A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written—or even read—a biography before. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other—and lived essentially on the same street. Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile and influencing Bair’s own feminist beliefs. Parisian Lives draws on Bair’s extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes. This gripping memoir is full of personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.
Author: Adalgisa Giorgio Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781571813411 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors identify characteristics arising from specific national literary traditions and from internal cultural diversities. The text suggests avenues for future investigation both within and across national boundaries. The featured writers include Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolin, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, and Martin Gaite. The six contributing authors are scholars from New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy and Wales. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063075067 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
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Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays “Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer”(Wall Street Journal) From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril. Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women. Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.
Author: Ruth Evans Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719043024 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not only on the development of critiques of sexual politics but on twentieth-century western thinking about the concept of 'woman' in general.This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this enormously influential text for a new generation of feminist readers, and also for cultural theorists, for whom the question of 'the feminine' is at the centre of key debates in philosophy and postmodernity.The contributors provide a significantly new rethinking of the place of The Second Sex in cultural history and of women and representation, the role of 'fictions' and the problem of ethical agency in the work of the leading intellectual woman of this age.
Author: Penny Forster
Author: Penny Forster
Author: Penny Forster
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Author: Lisa Greenwald
Author: Deirdre Bair
Author: Adalgisa Giorgio
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Author: Ruth Evans