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In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoirs philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoirs wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoirs existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartres philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity. Simons also draws on her experience as a Womens Liberation organizer as she witnessed how women used The Second Sex in defining the foundations of radical feminism. Bringing together her work as both activist and...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARGARET A. SIMONS, professor of philosophy and coordinator of the womens studies program at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, was the editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy from 1985 to 1990. She is co-editor (with Azizah al-Hibri) of Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 1990), and editor of Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995). She is currently co-editing (with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir) a six-volume series of Beauvoirs philosophical texts in English translation (Indiana University Press, forthcoming).

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