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Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
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Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Hardback - 2008 - 2nd Edition

by Toril Moi

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Hardback. New. For the second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir, Toril Moi provides a major new introduction discussing current developments in Beauvoir studies as well as the recent publication of papers and letters by Beauvoir, including her letters to her lovers Jacques-Laurent Bost and Nelson Agren, and her student diaries from 1926-7.
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  • Title Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
  • Author Toril Moi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2008. 2nd edition. 362p. Hardback. a landmark study on Simone de Beauvoir...a pivotal work for study of Beauvoir's autobiogr
  • Date 2008-03-15
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780199238712
  • ISBN 9780199238712 / 0199238715
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Beauvoir, Simone de, France - Intellectual life - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008271823
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-334) and index.

First line

For intellectual women today some of Simone de Beauvoir's choices are problematic, to say the least.

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Citations

  • Choice, 05/01/2010, Page 0

About the author

Toril Moi was born and raised in Norway, and worked in England in the 1980s, before moving to Duke University in 1989, where she is now the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. She is the author of numerous influential books on feminist theory. Her study of Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism was published to wide critical acclaim in 2006.