Beauvoir in Time

By Meryl Altman,

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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, andā€¦

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This recently published excavation of Simone de Beauvoirā€™s The Second Sex is almost as thick as Beauvoirā€™s massive tract, but donā€™t let that put you off. The photo of Beauvoir on the cover conveys an insouciant ā€œYeah, sureā€ attitude, and Meryl Atman uncannily channels that sentiment into a dazzlingly authoritative and entertaining discussion of why the overwhelming majority of the criticism of Beauvoirā€™s famous tome happens to be misguided and wrong. The book is about gender, race, sexuality, class, and privilege, but it isnā€™t a polemic. It is an exercise in critical reading at its most invigorating.

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