Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, "Feminist Writings"
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir
Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing
new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar
writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the
pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances,
including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism"
after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings
documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public
statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce
law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In
addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex
thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for
sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights
in France.
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