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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever. TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID

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Random House

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1473521912

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9781473521919

Political Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Political Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.

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409

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097203

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9780252097201

The Independent Woman

By: Simone De Beauvoir

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The Independent Woman

By: Simone De Beauvoir

“Like man, woman is a human being.” When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

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Vintage

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0525563407

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9780525563402

The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

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762

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0330303384

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9780330303385

Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simons

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Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simons

Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Beauvoir's philosophical work suffers from a lack of English-language translation or, worse, mistranslation into heavily condensed popular versions. Philosophical Writings provides an unprecedented collection of complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir's career, including a number of recently discovered works. Ranging from metaphysical literature to existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings together diverse elements of Beauvoir's work while highlighting continuities in the development of her thought. Each of the translations features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction explaining its larger significance. Revelatory and long overdue, Philosophical Writings adds to the ongoing resurgence of interest in Beauvoir's thought and to her growing influence on today's philosophical curriculum.

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369

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097165

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9780252097164

The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Some of the best of Simone de Brauvoir has been collected and compiled in this master book of her work. Included in this book is: Includes: The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex, On the publication of The Second Sex, interview Biography

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158

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CreateSpace

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1506193846

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9781506193847

Letters to Sartre

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Letters to Sartre

By: Simone de Beauvoir

In these letters, de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life; they reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and...

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545

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1611454980

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9781611454987

The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. De Beauvoir outlines a series of “ways of being” (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former’s deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist and existential philosophy. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human.

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Open Road Media

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1504054210

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9781504054218

The Coming of Age

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Coming of Age

By: Simone de Beauvoir

As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is "a brilliant achievement" (Marc Slonin, New York Times).

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596

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039331443X

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9780393314434

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

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386

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Harper Collins

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0060825197

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9780060825195

Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.

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328

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University of Illinois Press

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0252039009

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9780252039003

Adieux

A Farewell to Sartre

By: Simone De Beauvoir

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Adieux

A Farewell to Sartre

By: Simone De Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century. Translated by Patrick O'Brian

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Pantheon

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030783218X

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9780307832184

Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the preeminent French feminist philosopher Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and influence on the world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252031423

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9780252031427

Inseparable

A Novel

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Inseparable

A Novel

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays “Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer”(Wall Street Journal) From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril. Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women. Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.

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159

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HarperCollins

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0063075067

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9780063075061

La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

La más celebrada obra de la escritora francesa, esta historia de un triángulo amoroso entre dos adultos y una jovencita pone al descubierto las más oscuras ambigüedades de la moral al uso. En esta impactante novela ya aparecen los grandes temas de la obra de Beauvoir: la libertad, la acción y la libertad individual

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440

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8435015629

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9788435015622

The Mandarins

A Novel

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Mandarins

A Novel

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Young French men and women interact in love and politics as they simultaneously create and react to the social, intellectual and political climate of post-war Paris

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610

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Gateway Books

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0895268981

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9780895268983

Le Deuxième Sexe

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Le Deuxième Sexe

By: Simone de Beauvoir

THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.

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Vintage

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1857151372

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9781857151374

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