Beauvoir and The Second Sex

In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir''s philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir''s wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir''s existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosop...