Becoming Beauvoir : a life /
A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019
London ; New York, NY : 2020 |
| Edition: | Paperback edition |
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| Summary: | A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself |
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| Item Description: | First published in hardback in 2019 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 476 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm xiv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm xiv, 476 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1350047171 1350168432 9781350047174 9781350168435 |