Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Early Philosophical Writing....Pages 1-17
The Blood of Others: The Fictional Primer on Existentialism....Pages 18-34
The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Existentialist Ethics....Pages 35-45
A Character Ethics....Pages 46-58
Ethics for Violence....Pages 59-67
Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty....Pages 68-73
Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Sartre....Pages 74-87
De Beauvoir’s Ethics: A Critical Appraisal....Pages 88-95
The Historical Background to The Second Sex....Pages 96-103
The Philosophical Foundations of The Second Sex....Pages 104-113
The Second Sex: Woman as the Other....Pages 114-122
Existentialism and the Origins of Male Supremacy....Pages 123-128
The Married Woman....Pages 129-138
The Mother....Pages 139-148
The Independent Woman....Pages 149-154
Responses to The Second Sex: 1962–79....Pages 155-160
Responses to The Second Sex: 1981–85....Pages 161-174
Responses to The Second Sex: 1986–94....Pages 175-185
Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Feminism: A Defence....Pages 186-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-241