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The other within : ethics, politics, and the body in Simone de Beauvoir / Fredrika Scarth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist constructionsPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xvi, 195 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0742534758
  • 9780742534759
  • 0742534766
  • 9780742534766
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4201 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .S293 2004
Contents:
Ch. 1. Rethinking the body -- Ch. 2. Simone de Beauvoir : a masculine mother? -- Ch. 3. Coming of age : ambiguity and the freedom of others -- Ch. 4. The Second Sex : ambiguity and the body -- Ch. 5. Bodies at risk : the meanings of maternity -- Ch. 6. Conclusion : others within - from ethics to politics.
Review: "In The Other Within, Fredrika Scarth offers a reading of The Second Sex as an ethical text, driven by Beauvoir's preoccupation with what possibilities have been closed off to women by patriarchal structures, oppression, and inequality. Scarth provides a unique and enlightening view of Beauvoir's writing on the female body, particularly on maternity. Unlike other feminist scholars who find in Beauvoir's writing a repudiation of motherhood, Scarth argues that Beauvoir's writing on maternity can open up new possibilities of embodied subjectivity and agency, grounding an authentic ethical relationship with the other."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.

Ch. 1. Rethinking the body -- Ch. 2. Simone de Beauvoir : a masculine mother? -- Ch. 3. Coming of age : ambiguity and the freedom of others -- Ch. 4. The Second Sex : ambiguity and the body -- Ch. 5. Bodies at risk : the meanings of maternity -- Ch. 6. Conclusion : others within - from ethics to politics.

"In The Other Within, Fredrika Scarth offers a reading of The Second Sex as an ethical text, driven by Beauvoir's preoccupation with what possibilities have been closed off to women by patriarchal structures, oppression, and inequality. Scarth provides a unique and enlightening view of Beauvoir's writing on the female body, particularly on maternity. Unlike other feminist scholars who find in Beauvoir's writing a repudiation of motherhood, Scarth argues that Beauvoir's writing on maternity can open up new possibilities of embodied subjectivity and agency, grounding an authentic ethical relationship with the other."--BOOK JACKET.

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