Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1Laura Hengehold
Part I Rereading The Second Sex 13
A. Reception and scholarship 13
1 Beauvoir’s Transdisciplinarity: From Philosophy to Gender Theory 15Stella Sandford
2 The Intellectual and Social Context of The Second Sex 28Sandra Reineke
3 “The Limits of the Abject.” The Reception of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949 37Ingrid Galster
4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited 47Kathryn T. Gines
5 Two English Translations of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 59Emily R. Grosholz
B. Central Themes 71
6 Beauvoir and the Biological Body 73Ruth Groenhout
7 Becoming Bodies 87Emily Anne Parker
8 The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes 99Emily Zakin
9 The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault 111Mary Beth Mader
10 Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of Motherhood 122Alison Stone
11 Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth 134Sara Cohen Shabot
12 Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny 146Nancy Bauer
13 Love – According to Simone de Beauvoir 160Tove Pettersen
14 Why is Woman the Other? 174Tanella Boni
Part II Beauvoir’s Intellectual Engagements 185
15 Beauvoir and Hegel 187Kimberly Hutchings
16 Simone de Beauvoir’s Relation to Hegel’s Absolute 198Zeynep Direk
17 Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty 211Jennifer McWeeny
18 Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Freedom and Authenticity 224William Wilkerson
19 Beauvoir and the Marxism Question 236Sonia Kruks
20 Beauvoir Between Structuralism and “Aleatory Materialism” 249Eva D. Bahovec
21 Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre 260Christine Daigle
Part III Beyond The Second Sex 271
A. Beauvoir’s Ethics and Political Philosophy 271
22 “Pyrrhus and Cineas”: The Conditions of a Meaningful Life 273Kristana Arp
23 Separation and Queer Connection in The Ethics of Ambiguity 286Laura Hengehold
24 Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics 299Lori J. Marso
25 Why Rape? Lessons from The Second Sex 311Debra Bergoffen
26 Simone de Beauvoir, Women’s Oppression and Existential Freedom 325Patricia Hill Collins
B. Beauvoir and the Art of Philosophical Fiction 339
27 Beauvoir as Literary Writer 341Meryl Altman
28 Simone de Beauvoir and the Dialectic of Desire in L’invitée 356Anne van Leeuwen
29 The Failure of Female Identity in Simone de Beauvoir’s Fiction 367Shannon M. Mussett
30 The Power of Literature: Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins and the Metaphysical Novel 379Sally J. Scholz
C. Beauvoir’s Scope: Memory, History, and Age 391
31 Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Autobiography 393Margaret A. Simons
32 Witnessing Self, Witnessing Other in Beauvoir’s Life Writings 406Ursula Tidd
33 Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Philosophy of History 418Michel Kail
34 The Postwar World According to Beauvoir 429William McBride
35 Afterlives: Beauvoir’s Old Age and the Intersections of The Second Sex 438Penelope Deutscher
Part IV Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism 449
36 Race after Beauvoir 451Shannon Sullivan
37 Who Is the Subject of The Second Sex? Life, Science, and Transmasculine Embodiment in Beauvoir’s Chapter on Biology 463A. Alexander Antonopoulos
38 Misunderstanding in Paris 478Karen Vintges
39 Beauvoir’s Legacy to the Quartiers: The Changing Face of French Feminism 489Diane Perpich
40 Second Languaging The Second Sex, Its Conceptual Genius: A Translingual Contemporization of “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.” 500Kyoo Lee
Index 514