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Author:

Moi, Toril.

Title:

Simone de Beauvoir : the making of an intellectual woman / Toril Moi.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 349 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Beauvoir, Simone de,--1908-1986.
Women and literature--France--History--20th century.
Women authors, French--20th century--Biography.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.
Women intellectuals--France--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-334) and index.

Contents:

Second only to Sartre -- The making of an intellectual woman -- Politics and the intellectual woman : clichés and commonplaces in the reception of Simone de Beauvoir -- L'Invitée : an existentialist melodrama -- Freedom and flirtation : the personal and the philosophical in Sartre and Beauvoir -- Ambiguous women : alienation and the body in The second sex -- Beauvoir's utopia : the politics of The second sex -- The scandal of loneliness and separation : the writing of depression.

ISBN:

0199238723 (pbk.)
9780199238729 (pbk.)
0199238715 (hbk.)
9780199238712 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173498623

LCCN:

2008271823

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)