Becoming Beauvoir: a life [Paperback edition] 9781350047174, 9781350047181, 9781350047198, 1350047171, 9781350168435, 1350168432

'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman', wrote Simone de Beauvoir. This is a woman who was also to bec

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English Pages xiv, 476 pages: illustrations (black and white; 22 cm Year 2019;2020

Table of contents :
Abbreviations of Beauvoir's Works Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir-Who's She? 1. Growing like a girl 2. The dutiful daughter 3. Lover of God or lover of men? 4. The love before the legend 5. The Valkyrie and the Playboy6. Rooms of her own 7. The trio that was a quartet 8. War within, war without 9. Forgotten philosophy 10. Queen of existentialism 11. American dilemmas12. The scandalous Second Sex 13. Putting a new face on love 14. Feeling gypped 15. Old age revealed 16. The dying of the light 17. Afterwords: What will become of Simone de Beauvoir? Select Bibliography

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