Beauvoir in Time

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43120-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 348, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 982 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altman, Meryl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Before We Said “We”

1 Unhappy Bodies: The Frigid Woman in The Second Sex

1 A Passion for Frigidity?

2 Who was Wilhelm Stekel?

3 Stekel (and Freud) in The Second Sex

4 Stekel par Lui-même

5 What She Made of What He Made of Us

6 The Trouble with Happy

7 Misery, Agency, Ethics

8 Therapy and Self-improvement

9 Last Thoughts

2 Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience

1 Where the Lesbians Are

2 Reading in Time

3 The Time of Writing

4 Between Gide and Proust

5 Lesbian Reading

6 L’invitée

7 Conclusion

3 Nothing to Say about Race and Class?

1 Beauvoir’s Trip to America, and What She Found There

2 Materialist Analysis and Working Women’s Lives in The Second Sex

3 Questions of Exclusion, Questions of Method: Women of Color Critiques

4 “Others” and Analogies: Rereading the Introduction After Anna Julia Cooper

5 Imaginary Dialogues: Anna Julia Cooper and Other Black Women Writers

6 Spelman in Time: What Got Lost, And What Was Needed

7 Different Legacies: From Audre Lorde to Judith Butler

8 Beauvoir’s Other “Others”: Nation, Class, Colonialism

9 Beauvoir’s Early Political Thinking and Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté 206

10 Last Thoughts

4 Beauvoir and Blackness

1 Two-Way Streets: Richard Wright, Psychology and Politics

2 Lost in Translation

3 Violence and Authenticity

4 Surrealism's Paradoxical Legacy

5 Surrealism and Politics: More Two-way Streets

6 Who was Michel Leiris?

7 Beauvoir and Surrealism: L’Invitée

8 Myths and Travels

9 Meanwhile, Back in New York…

10 Beauvoir Reads America, America Reads Beauvoir

11 Reading Beauvoir with Fanon

12 Unflattering Portraits, New Ways to Live

5 The East is Real: Orientalism and Its Enemies

1 Algeria Without Apology

2 A Response to “Occidental Dreams”

3 Harem Trouble

4 Theories and Histories

5 The Myth Itself, and Not the Thing

6 Anti-Orientalism in The Second Sex: Plus Jamais Claudel

7 Pour en finir avec Montherlant

8 But We Know So Much More About This Now

9 Harem Trouble 2.0: The Veil

10 One Last Imaginary Dialogue, and Some Real Ones

11 Last Thoughts

6 Beauvoir in China

1 An Essay on China

2 Reality-testing and Cold War Frames

3 Orientalisms, Anti-orientalisms, Alternatives

4 Last Thoughts: Dateline Beijing

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meryl Altman studied Literature at Swarthmore and Columbia (Ph.D. 1988) and taught at DePauw University in Indiana. She has published on modernist American poetry and fiction, the history of sexuality, Sappho and classical reception, migrant domestic labor, and Beauvoir.