Beauvoir in Time / / Meryl Altman.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; Volume 348
• VerfasserIn: Altman, Meryl,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 348.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of her writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Beauvoir in Time -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Before We Said "We -- 1 Unhappy Bodies: The Frigid Woman in The Second Sex -- 1 A Passion for Frigidity? -- 2 Who was Wilhelm Stekel? -- 3 Stekel (and Freud) in The Second Sex -- 4 Stekel par lui-même -- 5 What She Made of What He Made of Us -- 6 The Trouble with Happy -- 7 Misery, Agency, Ethics -- 8 Therapy and Self-improvement -- 9 Last Thoughts -- 2 Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience -- 1 Where the Lesbians Are -- 2 Reading in Time -- 3 The Time of Writing -- 4 Between Gide and Proust -- 5 Lesbian Reading -- 6 Lesbians and L'invitée -- 7 Last Thoughts -- 3 Nothing to Say About Race and Class? -- 1 Beauvoir's Trip to America, and What She Found There -- 2 Materialist Analysis and Working Women's Lives in The Second Sex -- 3 Questions of Exclusion, Questions of Method -- 4 "Others" and Analogies Rereading the Introduction after Anna Julia Cooper -- 5 Imaginary Dialogues Anna Julia Cooper, Other Black Women Writers -- 6 Spelman in Time What Got Lost, and What Was Needed -- 7 Different Legacies From Audre Lorde to Judith Butler -- 8 Beauvoir's Other "Others" Nation, Class, Colonialism -- 9 Beauvoir's Early Political Thinking and Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté -- 10 Last Thoughts -- 4 Beauvoir and Blackness -- 1 Two-way Streets Richard Wright, Psychology, and Politics -- 2 Lost in Translation -- 3 Violence and Authenticity -- 4 Surrealism's Paradoxical Legacy -- 5 Surrealism and Politics More Two-way Streets -- 6 Who Was Michel Leiris? -- 7 Beauvoir and Surrealism L'invitée (Again) -- 8 Myths and Travels -- 9 Meanwhile, Back in New York. -- 10 Beauvoir Reads America, America Reads Beauvoir -- 11 Reading Beauvoir with Fanon -- 12 Unflattering Portraits, New Ways to Live -- 5 The East is Real: Orientalism and Its Enemies -- 1 Algeria without Apology.

2 A Response to "Occidental Dreams -- 3 Harem Trouble -- 4 Theories and Histories -- 5 The Myth Itself, and Not the Thing -- 6 Anti-orientalism in The Second Sex Plus Jamais Claudel -- 7 Pour en finir avec Montherlant -- 8 But We Know So Much More about This Now -- 9 Harem Trouble 2.0 The Veil -- 10 One Last Imaginary Dialogue, and a Few Real Ones -- 11 Last Thoughts -- 6 Beauvoir in China -- 1 An Essay on China -- 2 Reality-Testing and Cold War Frames -- 3 Orientalisms, Anti-orientalisms, Alternatives -- 4 Last Thoughts Dateline Beijing -- Bibliography -- Index.