Beauvoir in Time

By: Altman, Meryl

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004431209
• ISBN13: 9789004431201
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 580 Pages