Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony |
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| Author:
| Tidd, Ursula |
| Contribution by:
| Sheringham, Michael |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in French Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-66130-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1999 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $160.95 |
Book Description:
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This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiogra phical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with issues of gender, sexuality and race, as part of her auto/biographical strategy in seeking to write herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon. Tidd offers new readings of...
More DescriptionThis is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiogra phical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with issues of gender, sexuality and race, as part of her auto/biographical strategy in seeking to write herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon. Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known philosophical and autobiographical texts.