UID:
almafu_9958351966402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780231529174
Series Statement:
Gender and Culture Series
Content:
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. In exploring what it might mean to philosophize as a woman, Beauvoir produced a book that not only sparked the contemporary feminist movement but also, Bauer argues, made an important but still profoundly undervalued contribution to the philosophical tradition.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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Introduction: Recounting Woman --
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CHAPTER 1. Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms? First Philosophy, The Second Sex, and the Third Wave --
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CHAPTER 2. I Am a Woman, Therefrom I Think: The Second Sex and the Meditations --
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CHAPTER 3. The Truth of Self-Certainty: A Rendering of Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic --
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CHAPTER 4. The Conditions of Hell: Sartre on Hegel --
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CHAPTER 5. Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel: Pyrrhus et Cinéas and The Ethics of Ambiguity --
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CHAPTER 6. The Second Sex and the Master-Slave Dialectic --
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CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Self in The Second Sex --
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NOTES --
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REFERENCES CITED --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/baue11664
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/baue11664
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