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Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that ""a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem."" Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: ""Then what kind of a problem does being a wom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Gender and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that ""a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem."" Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: ""Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?"" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-centu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780231529174 0231529171 |