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Deirdre Bair: "Simone de Beauvoir". Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Sabine Lohmann und Uda Strätling. Albrecht Knaus Verlag, München 1990. 896 S. Text, 24 S. Ill., geb., 58,- DM

Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir's views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her theory of women's 'otherness' in the context of a number of contemporary theories on a similar subject. While gender takes its place among these, Professor Deutscher counterbalances its grip on our memory of Beauvoir's ideas by situating it in the context of our relationship to ageing, to generational difference, and to race and cultural difference. By differentiating the many aspects of 'otherness', Beauvoir revisited some of the concepts of reciprocity, ambiguity, and ethics for which she is best remembered

Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective

Este artículo explora el proceso de recepción en España de la obra de Simone de Beauvoir El Segundo Sexo, teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias políticas y culturales en que vivía el país. Se presta atención al papel desempeñado en un primer momento por mujeres como María Campo Alange y Mercedes Formica, dos figuras clave en la recuperación de la conciencia feminista durante el franquismo. También se atiende al eco despertado por la obra en algunos libros y publicaciones periódicas posteriores en España. ; This article examines the process of acknowledgement in Spain of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, taking into account the political and cultural circumstances in the country. It pays attention the part initially played by women like María Campo Alange as well Mercedes Formica, two key figures in the recovery of feminist consciousness during the francoist period. It also deals with the feedback obtained by this work in some subsequent books and periodical reviews in Spain.

Introduction -- The dutiful daughter: obligations, hopes, and possibilities: 1909-1939 -- Living through the war: responsibilities and choices: 1939-1944 -- Becoming an author: desires, dialogues, and engagement: 1945-1954 -- Being a woman: the making of a feminist philosophy: 1949 and after -- Being free in the world: ethics and engagement: 1954-1964 -- Acting in the world: politics, paradoxes, and disillusions: 1961-1970 -- Reflecting on the world: feminism, fame, and scandal: 1970-1986