Simone de Beauvoir, the "Second Sex"
Ruth . Ed(S): Evans
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Evans, Ruth. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 350.
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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Texts in Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719043031
SKU
V9780719043031
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99-15
About Ruth . Ed(S): Evans
Ruth Evans is Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor in the Department of English at St Louis University -- .
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