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Hailed by some feminists as the single most important theoretical work of this century, but ignored or reviled by others, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) 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 significant text for a new generation of feminist readers. The contributors provide new perspectives on the place of The Second Sex in cultural history, on women and representation, on the role of "fictions" and on the problem of ethical agency in the work of the leading intellectual women of this age.
About the Author, Ruth Evans
Ruth Evans is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Six essays examine the impact and import of from the perspectives of such disciplines as French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory, and philosophy. The essays take a decidedly postmodernist bent in their discussions of topics such as De Beauvoir's influence on French feminism, her use of irony in the text, and her construction of the feminine. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
