Simone de Beauvoir

Surely we can call Simone de Beauvoir an existentialist without much ado?

Archive 2008-10-01 enowning 2008

Surely we can call Simone de Beauvoir an existentialist without much ado?

enowning enowning 2008

By doing a book of conversations that I have begun with Simone de Beauvoir, which is the continuation of Les Mots, but which will be arranged this time by themes, and which will not be done with the style of Les Mots, since I can no longer have any style.

Sartre at Seventy: An Interview Contat, Michel 1975

Christine was rediscovered in the late 18th century but it was 20th century writers and scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir and Charity Cannon Willard, who argue that she should be considered an early feminist who portrayed through her work that woman could play an important role in society if they were allowed to.

Archive 2009-12-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Christine was rediscovered in the late 18th century but it was 20th century writers and scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir and Charity Cannon Willard, who argue that she should be considered an early feminist who portrayed through her work that woman could play an important role in society if they were allowed to.

Christine de Pizan Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

The very title, Film About A Woman Who..., with its coy ellipsis ... begging that we fill in its blank while designating as suspect any term offered, implies Rainer was already treating "Woman" as a construct twenty years before gender theorist Judith Butler famously extrapolated her anti-essentialist critique of gender from Simone de Beauvoir.

G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011

The very title, Film About A Woman Who..., with its coy ellipsis ... begging that we fill in its blank while designating as suspect any term offered, implies Rainer was already treating "Woman" as a construct twenty years before gender theorist Judith Butler famously extrapolated her anti-essentialist critique of gender from Simone de Beauvoir.

G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011

The very title, Film About A Woman Who..., with its coy ellipsis ... begging that we fill in its blank while designating as suspect any term offered, implies Rainer was already treating "Woman" as a construct twenty years before gender theorist Judith Butler famously extrapolated her anti-essentialist critique of gender from Simone de Beauvoir.

G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011

With its jokes about Simone de Beauvoir and Dostoevsky, and the comedy of the arsonist inmate of Holloway Prison called Grace Poole, with whom Adrian begins a correspondence, you know that the author had grown-up readers in mind.

Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 2011

Bertrand Russell, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, Simone de Beauvoir – I hope BWISP will have the humility to accept that these writers had at least as much concern for freedom and human dignity as they do themselves.

Letters: Israel critics should respect my decision 2011