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In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to 20th-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity. [publisher's description]

Existence [Philosophie de l' ] --- Existentialism --- Existentialisme --- Existentiefilosofie --- Existenzphilosophie --- Feminism --- Feminisme --- Féminisme --- Philosophie de l'existence --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophy --- Beauvoir, de, Simone --- Beauvoir, Simone de --- Criticism and interpretation --- Race relations --- Beauvoir, Simone de, - 1908- - Deuxième sexe. --- Beauvoir, Simone de, - 1908- - Criticism and interpretation. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's liberation --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Ontology --- Phenomenology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Epiphanism --- Relationism --- Self --- Emancipation --- Beauvoir, Simone de, --- Beauvoir, S. de --- De Beauvoir, Simone, --- Bofuwa, Ximengna de, --- Bōvōwāru, Shimōnu do, --- Bovuar, Simona de, --- Būfwār, Sīmūn Dū, --- De Bofuwa, Ximengna, --- Po-wa, Hsi-meng, --- Castor, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- de Beauvoir, Simone, --- de Beauvoir, Simone --- De Beauvoir, Simone --- Bofuwa, Ximengna de --- Bōvōwāru, Shimōnu do --- Bovuar, Simona de --- Būfwār, Sīmūn Dū --- De Bofuwa, Ximengna --- Po-wa, Hsi-meng --- Castor --- Biographical details --- Book