Understanding Beauvoir, Understanding Modernism

Pauline Henry-Tierney is Senior Lecturer in French and Translation Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is Managing Editor of the award-winning international journal, Simone de Beauvoir Studies. She has recently co-edited a volume on the global translations of Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe, titled Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex: Transnational Framing, Interpretation, and Impact (2023). She is also the author of Translating Transgressive Texts: Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French (2023).

• Introduction: Beauvoir’s ModernityPauline Henry-Tierney, Newcastle University, UK Part 1: Conceptualizing Beauvoir 1. Becoming Otherwise: Temporalities of the Girl, Racialized Becoming and Trans Freedom with BeauvoirElspeth Mitchell, University of Leeds, UK 2. Simone de Beauvoir on Feminine Sympathy: The Body as A Source of Moral KnowledgeCécile Gagnon, University of Montreal, Canada 3. Frailty and Other Myths of Old Age: Conceptualizing, Identifying and Resisting the Enduring Roots of AgeismSusan Pickard, University of Liverpool, UK 4. Mortality-as-finitude and mortality-as-means: Exploring Beauvoir’s multifaceted conception of mortality in All Men Are MortalKayla Dold, University of Ottawa, Canada Part 2: Beauvoirian Modernist Aesthetics 5. Becoming the Body of the People behind the Single Voice: Woolf/Beauvoir, Modernism, IntercorporealityLuca Pinelli, University of Bergamo, Italy 6. Ambiguous Ageing: Beauvoir’s Modernist Polyphony and FilmKelli Fuery, Chapman University, USA 7. Action and the American Novel: Reconciling Modernist Studies and Postcritique with BeauvoirKevin Spencer, Wenzhou-Kean University, China 8. Beautiful Images: Thinking through Media with Simone de BeauvoirPaul Earlie, University of Bristol, UK 9. “My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy”: Distance, Disclosure, and Perception in The Ethics of Ambiguity and To the LighthouseRuth Thrush, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK 10. The Marginalization of Women in Mythology: A Study of Clytemnestra from a Beauvoirian PerspectiveRudrika Khajuria, Government Degree College Sidhra, India11. Simone de Beauvoir and Finitude in Une Mort très douce (A Very Easy Death) and Un Beau Matin (One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve) Marguerite La Caze, University of Queensland, Australia Part 3: Glossary 12. ActionSara Barbo, Tallinn University, Estonia 13. AmbiguityMegan Burke, Independent Scholar, USA 14. Bad FaithPauline Henry-Tierney, Newcastle University, UK 15. SituationAnna Ceschi, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland 16. OtherAnna Cornelia Ploug, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 17. The UnrealizableCillian Ó Fathaigh, Jagiellonian University, Poland 18. The VoiceSophia Millman, Princeton University, USA Index