{"product_id":"simone-de-beauvoirs-the-second-sex-texts-in-culture","title":"Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex (Texts in Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist canon. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not only on the development of critiques of sexual politics but on twentiethcentury western thinking about the concept of woman in general.This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of rereading and reassessing this enormously influential text for a new generation of feminist readers, and also for cultural theorists, for whom the question of the feminine is at the centre of key debates in philosophy and postmodernity.The contributors provide a significantly new rethinking of the place of The Second Sex in cultural history and of women and representation, the role of fictions and the problem of ethical agency in the work of the leading intellectual woman of this age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45901599178950,"sku":"DADAX0719043034","price":25.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71d8Q1Kq_OL.jpg?v=1780325231","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/simone-de-beauvoirs-the-second-sex-texts-in-culture","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}