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Simone de Beauvoir a sans doute été l'intellectuelle de gauche la plus influente en France et dans le monde, des années 1950 jusqu'à sa mort, en 1986. Comme toute célébrité, elle a reçu des milliers de lettres. Mais contrairement à d'autres figures publiques et de façon tout à fait exceptionnelle, elle en a conservé environ 20000 et a entretenu de nombreuses correspondances suivies, notamment avec ses lectrices "ordinaires".Lorsqu'il y a dix ans je me suis lancée dans la lecture de ces lettres, j'ai eu l'immense privilège de rencontrer cinq des correspondantes les plus assidues de Simone de Beauvoir : Colette Avrane, Huguette-Céline Bastide, Mireille Cardot, Claire Cayron et Blossom Margaret Douthat Segaloff. Ce sont leurs lettres, accompagnées des réponses de l'écrivaine, qui sont publiées dans ce recueil. Véritable plongée dans l'intimité de cinq femmes, ces lettres donnent aussi à voir le tissu culturel et social des Trente Glorieuses.L'adolescence, le lesbianisme, la contraception, le couple, les violences conjugales, la lutte contre l'ordre dominant bourgeois ou encore l'anticolonialisme et le racisme sont autant de sujets abordés. On y découvre en même temps un aspect inédit de la personnalité et de la trajectoire intellectuelle de Beauvoir qui permet de renouer avec la radicalité et la portée révolutionnaire de sa pensée.

Women --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Beauvoir, Simone de, --- Femmes

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Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty-first century. In Ambiguous Cinema, Fuery examines Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers, including Joanna Hogg, Liliana Cavani, Debra Granik, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ramsay and Céline Sciamma In doing so, Fuery deftly demonstrates the currency and relevancy of Beauvoir’s ideas to contemporary debates in film-philosophy and feminist thought by examining how these women filmmakers navigate turbulent themes such as moral choice, power, adolescence, love, trauma and motherhood. Reimagining Beauvoir’s idea of ambiguity within the context of film studies, Fuery asks that we confront and embrace difficult emotional situations so that we might realise an authentic, if indeterminate, freedom through our cinematic experiences

Feminism and motion pictures. --- Ambiguity in motion pictures. --- Beauvoir, Simone de,

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Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She centers and amplifies the voices of Black women and other Women of Color, such as Lorraine Hansberry, Angela Davis, Chikwenye Ogunyemi, Deborah King, Oyèrónké Oywùmí, Mariana Ortega, Kathy Glass, bell hooks, Kyoo Lee, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alia Al-Saji. Special attention is also given to Claudia Jones and Audre Lorde, both of whom implicitly and indirectly engage with The Second Sex. Beauvoir and Belle demonstrates the myriad ways in which these frameworks both expose and surpass the limits of The Second Sex. Belle argues against the frameworks of oppression used by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex, a foundational text of white feminist philosophy. She frames Beauvoir's analogies as limitations, and shows how Beauvoir either does not engage with Black women and other Women of Color-or engages with them in problematic ways. Belle explores how Black and other Women of Color have critically written and talked about The Second Sex, and in so doing exposes the ways in which the existing Beauvoir scholarship has mostly ignored these engagements, thereby replicating Beauvoir's exclusions.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Beauvoir, de, Simone --- Womanism. --- Women, Black. --- Racism. --- Womanisme. --- Femmes de couleur. --- Lutte contre le racisme. --- Beauvoir, Simone de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation