Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this enormously influential text.

Ruth Evans is Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor in the Department of English at St Louis University

1. Introduction: The Second Sex and the postmodern - Ruth Evans2. Writing from the centre: ironies of otherness and marginality - Margaret Atack3. The influence of The Second Sex on the French feminist scene - Catherine Rodgers4. Simone de Beauvoir: transcending fictions - Lorna Sage5. A certain lack of symmetry: Beauvoir on autonomous agency and women's embodiment - Catriona Mackenzie6. Reading, resistance and disempowerment - Stephen Horton7. To become or not to become; or, Must two be second? Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex in conversation - Nicole Ward JouveBibliographyIndex