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Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir [1 ed.] 0271014121, 027101413X
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FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS Uf SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EDITED BY MARGARET A. SIMONS
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FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS~ Of SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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THE CANON
NANCY TUANA, GENERAL EDITOR
This series consists of edited collections of essays, some original and some previously published, offering feminist reinterpretations of the writings of major figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Devoted to the work of a single philosopher, each volume contains essays covering the full range of the philosopher’s thought and representing the diversity of approaches now being used by feminist
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Already published: Nancy Tuana, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Plato (1994)
FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS Uf SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EDITED BY MARGARET A. SIMONS
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir / Margaret A. Simons, ed. cm. — (Re-reading the canon) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-01412-1 (cloth) ISBN 0-271-01413-X (paper) 1. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1
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If I were to pick a public intellectual least likely to have influenced J.R.R. Tolkien, Simone de Beauvoir may not be the first person I would think of. There’s a good chance, though, that she would make the shortlist.
French thinker Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir is best know for her clarion call, The Second Sex. This book tracks the history of oppression of women in intimate detail and launched the second wave of feminism–the one that we saw emerge after WWII and rose in the 60s and 70s. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is perhaps the most influential and accessible of the early books of the movement. Simone de Beauvoir is also known for her non-institutional sexual relationship with Jean-Paul Satre, the father of 20th century existentialism, and later (incongruently) a Marxist.
Free love, feminism, existentialism, Marxism, French philosophy–these are hardly things to bring up in a Lord of the Rings blog. To be blunt, Tolkien was a devout Catholic and de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex landed on Index Librorum Prohibitorum–the Vatican’s infamous list of banned books. Sure, I believe that there is subversive quality about Tolkien’s work that puts it in conversation with parts of feminism and egalitari