Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir''s autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in Le deuxième sexe and her other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Drawing on more recent work in autobiographical studies and working within a broadly Foucauldian framework, Ursula Tidd offers a detailed analysis of Beauvoir''s auto/biographical s...