TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scarth,Fredrika
TI  - The other within: ethics, politics, and the body in Simone de Beauvoir 
T2  - Feminist constructions
SN  - 0742534758
AV  - HQ1190 .S293 2004
U1  - 305.4201 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Beauvoir, Simone de,
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Feminist ethics
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -