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This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Since its publication, the sentence has inspired feminist thinking and action in many different cultural and linguistic contexts. Two entangled controversies emerge in the life of this sentence: a controversy over the practice of translation and a controversy over the nature and status of sexual difference. This book examines both conflicts.

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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 development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir's discovery of a new way to philosophize-a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of The Second Sex, Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical.

Philosophy --- Feminism. --- Feminist theory. --- Beauvoir, Simone de,

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Existence [Philosophie de l' ] --- Existentialism --- Existentialisme --- Existentiefilosofie --- Existenzphilosophie --- Feminism--Philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Feminist theory --- Feministische theorie --- Philosophie de l'existence --- Theory of feminism --- Théorie féministe --- Beauvoir, Simone de --- Beauvoir, Simone de, - 1908 --- -Beauvoir, Simone de --- Beauvoir, Simone de, - 1908-

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Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The chapters in this volume examine all the major aspects of her thought, including her views on issues such as the role of biology, sexuality and sexual difference, and evil ; the influence on her work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and others ; and the philosophical significance of her memoirs and fiction. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Beauvoir currently available. Advanced studients and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Beauvoir.

Brain --- Cognition --- Neural networks (Neurobiology) --- Physiology --- Feminism - France --- Philosophy --- Beauvoir, Simone de, - 1908-1986 --- Existentiefilosofie. --- Filosofia --- Philosophie. --- Beauvoir, Simone de, --- Beauvoir, Simone de. --- crítica e interpretação. --- Feminism --- French fiction 20th century History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Utilises women's independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in film experience.

Ambiguity in motion pictures. --- Feminism and motion pictures. --- Women independent filmmakers. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and feminism --- Beauvoir, Simone de, ‡d 1908-1986. --- Independent filmmakers --- Women motion picture producers and directors --- Beauvoir, Simone de, --- Influence.