Simone De Beauvoir's Political Thinking

Lori Jo Marso is an associate professor of political science and director of women's and gender studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is the author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity.Patricia Moynagh is an assistant professor of political science at Wagner College on Staten Island, New York.

"This work contains several excellent, wide-ranging, but focused essays . . . it provides us with much to think and rethink in relation to Beauvoir's methodology, her ethics, and her eventual entrance into radical politics in the Algerian War period."--JAC"Freedom, choice, responsibility. These words form the essence of Beauvoir's political thought as discussed in the six essays collected in this enlightening book. . . . They provide an extensive analysis of Beauvoir's ethics and highlight the urgency she felt to resist oppression. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "Bringing together a variety of essays from well-respected scholars, Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking makes a significant contribution to feminist theory and Beauvoir studies. Through these insightful interpretations of her work, Beauvoir emerges as a classical thinker whose theories on the social construction of the body are still relevant and important today."--Judith Grant, author of Fundamental Feminism "The central achievement of this volume is to recover Beauvoir's work for feminist political theory. Especially noteworthy is the attempt to wrest from Beauvoir a way of thinking about politics which emphasizes singularity and refuses to subsume the particular under the universal. Taken together, the essays go a long way in making the case for Beaufoir as a feminist political theorist in her own right, a thinker who brilliantly grasped the vicissitudes of the human condition and the contingency of human action."--Linda Zerilli, Professor of political science, Northwestern University