Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader

• Introduction, Elizabeth Fallaize. Part 1. Readings of The Second Sex. 1. Rereading The Second SexJudith Okely 2. Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second SexJudith Butler 3. The Weight of the Situation Sonia Kruks Beauvoir 4. Independent Women and Narratives of Liberation Toril Moi 5. The Master-Slave Dialectic in The Second SexEva Lundgren-Gothlin Part 2. Readings of the Autobiography. 6. The Father in Memoirs of a Dutiful DaughterFrancis Jeanson 7. Murdering the Mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful DaughterAlex Hughes 8. Encounters with Death in A Very Easy DeathElaine Marks 9. The Body in Decline in Adieux: A Farewell to SartreElaine Marks Part 3. Readings of Fiction. 10. Self-Encounter in She Came to StayHazel Barnes 11. She Came to Stay: The Phallus Strikes Back Jane Heath 12. Mythical Discourse in 'The Woman Destroyed Anne Ophir 13. Narrative Strategies and Sexual Politics Elizabeth Fallaize Further Reading.

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