Feminist Writings

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword to the Beauvoir Series / Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir Acknowledgments Introduction / Margaret A. Simons 1. French Women Writers Introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize Problems for Women's Literature Women of Letters 2. Femininity: The Trap Introduction by Nancy Bauer Femininity: The Trap 3. A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Lévi-Strauss Introduction by Shannon M. Mussett A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Lévi-Strauss 4. Short Feminist Texts from the Fifties and Sixties Introduction by Karen Vintges It's About Time Women Put a New Face on Love Preface to Family Planning Preface to The Great Fear of Loving The Condition of Women Preface to The Sexually Responsive Woman What Love Is—and Isn't Love and Politics 5. Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome Introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome 6. The Situation of Women Today Introduction by Debra B. Bergoffen The Situation of Women Today 7. Women and Creativity Introduction by Ursula Tidd Women and Creativity 8. Foreword to History: A Novel Introduction by Margaret A. Simons Foreword to History: A Novel 9. The MLF and the Bobigny Affair Introduction by Sylvie Chaperon The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer Response to Some Women and a Man Abortion and the Poor Beauvoir's Deposition at the Bobigny Trial Preface to Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair 10. Short Feminists Text from the Seventies and Eighties Introduction by Françoise Picq Everyday Sexism League of Women's Rights Manifesto Preface to Divorce in France Introduction to Women Insist Preface to Through Women's Eyes When All the Women of the World . . . My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair Preface to Stories from the French Women's Liberation Movement The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law Press Conference of the International Committee for Women's Rights Foreword to Deception Chronicles: From the Women's Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark Women, Ads, and Hate 11. Preface to Mihloud Introduction by Lillian S. Robinson and Julien Murphy Preface to Mihloud Contributors Index|Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and The Second Sex (1949). Margaret A. Simons is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. Marybeth Timmermann is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir's Philosophical...