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xf ° CRITICAL READER 6 OE ES ete. by ILABETH LAI 5 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: Jake GdESE G ra iy a e/BaNo fls e Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader is an invaluable collection of critical texts on Simone de Beauvoir’s work, as a feminist, a novelist and an autobiographer. It includes key essays examining her fiction, her writings on her life and her most famous work, The Second Sex, by an outstanding list of contributors comprising: Toril Moi, Hazel Barnes, Elaine Marks, Alex Hughes, Judith Butler, Jane Heath, Anne Ophir, Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, Judith Okely, Sonia Kruks, Francis Jeanson. In an informative and compelling introduction Elizabeth Fallaize contextual- ises the readings of Beauvoir within the evolution of feminism, and considers her changing role within contemporary culture and thought. She provides a timely reassessment of Beauvoir’s significance over the decades and an understanding of why she continues to matter today. This collection of critical writings on Simone de Beauvoir is an essential resource for students of twentieth-century culture, women’s studies and modern literature. Elizabeth Fallaize is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and has written extensively on Simone de Beauvoir. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/simonedebeauvoirO0O00unse_g9q4 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: \ (COROUEIUBGU G esIsD e I Edited by Elizabeth Fallaize x London and New York SYL4 {3S YF First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Elizabeth Fallaize, editorial matter and the collection as a whole; see the Acknowledgements for © of individual chapters Typeset in Galliard and Helvetica by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Simone de Beauvoir: a critical reader/[edited by] Elizabeth Fallaize. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908— —Criticism and interpretation. I. Fallaize, Elizabeth. PQ2603.E3627876 1998 848’.91409—de21 97-44992 GIP ISBN 0-415-14702-6 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-14703-4 (pbk) FOR MY SON, JACK DRISCOLL CONTENTS Acknowledgements 1X Introduction ELIZABETH FALLAIZE Beauvotr’s writing career The critical field: reading the woman writer Readers of The Second Sex Readers of the autobiography Readers of the fiction Readings of The Second Sex JUDITH OKELY Rereading The Second Sex JUDITH BUTLER Sex and gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex SONIA KRUKS Beauvoir: the weight of situation TORIL MOI ‘Independent women’ and ‘Narratives of liberation’ EVA LUNDGREN-GOTHLIN ‘The master-slave dialectic in The Second Sex Readings of the autobiography 109 FRANCIS JEANSON' The father in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter ALEX HUGHES Murdering the mother in Memotrs of a Dutiful Daughter 120 ELAINE MARKS Encounters with death in A Very Easy Death and The body in decline in Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre 132 CONTENTS Readings of the fiction 155 HAZEL BARNES _ Self-encounter in She Came to Stay 157 JANE HEATH She Came to Stay: the phallus strikes back 171 ANNE OPHIR Mythical discourse in “The Woman Destroyed’ 183 ELIZABETH FALLAIZE Narrative strategies and sexual politics in Beauvoir’s fiction 193 Further reading 203 Index 207 Vill
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