Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. A prolific author, her most recent book is Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of The Second Sex. Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Dean of Academic Affairs for the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.

“Beauvoir studies will definitely be enriched by this copiously researched volume that includes the work of some of the very best Beauvoir scholars on established themes and new directions. In particular, the readings of Beauvoir as an early philosopher of feminist postcolonial consciousness, and as a theoretical visionary for transsexual biology and philosophy of science help frame Beauvoir’s relevance for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century grappling with essential questions of feminist solidarity across intersectional lines.” - Gayatri Devi, Lock Haven University, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 30: Issue 1, December 2019

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgements xviiIntroduction 1Laura HengeholdPart I Re‐reading The Second Sex 13A. Reception and Scholarship 131 Beauvoir’s Transdisciplinarity: From Philosophy to Gender Theory 15Stella Sandford2 The Intellectual and Social Context of The Second Sex 28Sandra Reineke3 “The Limits of the Abject.” The Reception of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949 37Ingrid Galster4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited 47Kathryn T. Gines5 Two English Translations of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 59Emily R. GrosholzB. Central Themes 716 Beauvoir and the Biological Body 73Ruth Groenhout7 Becoming Bodies 87Emily Anne Parker8 The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes 99Emily Zakin9 The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault 111Mary Beth Mader10 Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of Motherhood 122Alison Stone11 Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth 134Sara Cohen Shabot12 Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny 146Nancy Bauer13 Love – According to Simone de Beauvoir 160Tove Pettersen14 Why is Woman the Other? 174Tanella BoniPart II Beauvoir’s Intellectual Engagements 18515 Beauvoir and Hegel 187Kimberly Hutchings16 Simone de Beauvoir’s Relation to Hegel’s Absolute 198Zeynep Direk17 Beauvoir and Merleau‐Ponty 211Jennifer McWeeny18 Beauvoir and Merleau‐Ponty on Freedom and Authenticity 224William Wilkerson19 Beauvoir and the Marxism Question 236Sonia Kruks20 Beauvoir Between Structuralism and “Aleatory Materialism” 249Eva D. Bahovec21 Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre 260Christine DaiglePart III Beyond the Second Sex 271A. Beauvoir’s Ethics and Political Philosophy 27122 “Pyrrhus and Cineas”: The Conditions of a Meaningful Life 273Kristana Arp23 Separation and Queer Connection in The Ethics of Ambiguity 286Laura Hengehold24 Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics 299Lori J. Marso25 Why Rape? Lessons from The Second Sex 311Debra Bergoffen26 Simone de Beauvoir, Women’s Oppression and Existential Freedom 325Patricia Hill CollinsB. Beauvoir and the Art of Philosophical Fiction 33927 Beauvoir as Literary Writer 341Meryl Altman28 Simone de Beauvoir and the Dialectic of Desire in L’Invitée 356Anne van Leeuwen29 The Failure of Female Identity in Simone de Beauvoir’s Fiction 367Shannon M. Mussett30 The Power of Literature: Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins and the Metaphysical Novel 379Sally J. ScholzC. Beauvoir’s Scope: Memory, History, and Age 39131 Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Autobiography 393Margaret A. Simons32 Witnessing Self, Witnessing Other in Beauvoir’s Life Writings 406Ursula Tidd33 Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Philosophy of History 418Michel Kail34 The Postwar World According to Beauvoir 429William McBride35 Afterlives: Beauvoir’s Old Age and the Intersections of The Second Sex 438Penelope DeutscherPart IV Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism 44936 Race After Beauvoir 451Shannon Sullivan37 Who Is the Subject of The Second Sex? Life, Science, and Transmasculine Embodiment in Beauvoir’s Chapter on Biology 463A. Alexander Antonopoulos38 Misunderstanding in Paris 478Karen Vintges39 Beauvoir’s Legacy to the Quartiers: The Changing Face of French Feminism 489Diane Perpich40 Second Languaging The Second Sex, Its Conceptual Genius: A Translingual Contemporization of “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.” 500Kyoo LeeIndex 514