Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader

Abstract

Introduction, Elizabeth Fallaize. Part 1. Readings of The Second Sex. 1. Rereading The Second Sex Judith Okely 2. Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex Judith 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 Sex Eva Lundgren-Gothlin Part 2. Readings of the Autobiography. 6. The Father in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Francis Jeanson 7. Murdering the Mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Alex Hughes 8. Encounters with Death in A Very Easy Death Elaine Marks 9. The Body in Decline in Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre Elaine Marks Part 3. Readings of Fiction. 10. Self-Encounter in She Came to Stay Hazel 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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