Simone de Beauvoir: Freedom, Womanhood, and the Question of the Other

Noetic Lantern Book 30 · ABRAFP International Press · AI-narrated by Madison (from Google)
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What does freedom mean when the body, work, family, and social expectations shape the choices available? This original English introduction follows Simone de Beauvoir from her ethics of ambiguity to The Second Sex and its account of women made into the Other. It explains embodied and situated freedom, myths of femininity, marriage, motherhood, paid work, and the need for reciprocity. It also examines race and class, colonial context, and later feminist criticism rather than treating one famous sentence as the whole argument. Eighteen chapters, a glossary, annotated sources, and a chapter-to-source map invite a critical first reading.
What does freedom mean when the body, work, family, and social expectations shape the choices available? This original English introduction follows Simone de Beauvoir from her ethics of ambiguity to The Second Sex and its account of women made into the Other. It explains embodied and situated fre...

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