Simone de Beauvoir
Subtitle: the making of an intellectual woman
By: Toril Moi.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780199238712
Subjects: Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986.; Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century.; Women authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.; Women intellectuals -- France -- Biography.; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century. Blending biography with literary criticism, feminist theory, and historical and social analysis, this book provides a completely original analysis of Beauvoir's education and formation as an intellectual."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-334) and index.