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2 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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9 Simone de Beauvoir’s groundbreaking work has transformed the way
20 we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second
1 Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading
2 figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir’s concepts of ‘ing
3 woman’ and of woman as absolute ‘Other’ are among the most influ-
4 ential ideas in feminist enquiry and debate.
5 This book guides the reader through the main areas of Simone de
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1 • Sexuality, the body and ageing
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3 Drawing upon Beauvoir’s literary and theoretical texts, this is the
4 essential guidebook for those approaching the work of this key thinker
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7 Ursula Tidd is a lecturer in French at the University of Manchester,
8 and the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony (1999).
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