ISBN:
9780231116657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Series Statement:
Gender and Culture Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem.This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the dev
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Recounting Woman; 1. Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms? First Philosophy, The Second Sex, and the Third Wave; 2. I Am a Woman, Therefore I Think: The Second Sex and the Meditations; 3. The Truth of Self-Certainty: A Rendering of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic; 4. The Conditions of Hell: Sartre on Hegel; 5. Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel: Pyrrhus et Cineas and The Ethics of Ambiguity; 6. The Second Sex and the Master-Slave Dialectic; 7. The Struggle for Self in The Secon Sex; Notes; References Cited; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/baue11664
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