Hypatia articles from September 1999

Hypatia archives from September 1999

Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenology of sexual difference.
September 22, 1999... The paper argues that the philosophical starting point of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the phenomenological understanding of the living body, developed by Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It shows that Beauvoir's notion of...

Simone de Beauvoir: a feminist thinker for our times.
September 22, 1999... For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism--so much so that it can be...

Beauvoir, ontology, and women's human rights.
September 22, 1999... An earlier version of this article was published in The Challenges of Women's Activism and Human Rights in Africa, ed. Diana Fox and Naima Hasci (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999). Simone de Beauvoir offers an important contribution to discourse on...

The self-other relation in Beauvoir's ethics and autobiography.
September 22, 1999... This article examines how some of Simone de Beauvoir's ethical notions about the Self-Other relation explored in her theoretical philosophy of the 1940s were developed in her subsequent autobiography. It argues that Beauvoir represents...

Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism.
September 22, 1999... Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. By MARGARET A. SIMONS. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. In recent years, scholars have begun to take Simone de Beauvoir seriously as a philosopher, rather...

Marriage, autonomy, and the feminine protest.
September 22, 1999... This paper may be read as a reclamation project. It argues, with Simone de Beauvoir, that patriarchal marriage is both a perversion of the meaning of the couple and an institution in transition. Parting from those who have given up on marriage,...

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography. By JO-ANN PILARDI. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. This book is a welcome contribution to Simone de Beauvoir studies and, more particularly, to critical...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction. By EDWARD FULLBROOK and KATE FULLBROOK. New York: Polity Press/Blackwell, 1998. Edward and Kate Fullbrook's new book, Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (1998) builds on their earlier...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader. Edited by ELIZABETH FALLAIZE. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. As this special volume attests, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Simone de Beauvoir. A number of books on her have...

The Blood of Others: a novel approach to The Ethics of Ambiguity.
September 22, 1999... This article shows that the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir's novel, Le Sang des autres (The Blood of Others), first published in 1945, and her essay, Pour une morale de l'ambiguite (The Ethics of Ambiguity), first published in 1947,...

Reciprocity and friendship in Beauvoir's thought.
September 22, 1999... For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a relation of reciprocal recognition. I discuss formulations of reciprocity and the problem of the other as outlined in Beauvoir's 1927 diary and her...

She Came to Stay and Being and Nothingness.
September 22, 1999... This essay, using works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hazel Barnes, and Elizabeth Fallaize, documents the correspondence between the philosophical content of Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and Sartre's Being and Nothingness (both originally published...

Sexuality situated: Beauvoir on "frigidity".
September 22, 1999... This essay relates scenes from Beauvoir's novels to her views of female eroticism and frigidity in The Second Sex. Expressions of frigidity signal unjust power relations in Beauvoir's literature. She constructs frigidity as a symbolic means of...

Simone de Beauvoir's notions of appeal, desire, and ambiguity and their relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre's notions of appeal and desire.
September 22, 1999... This essay focuses on some important concepts in Beauvoir's philosophy: ambiguity, desire, and appeal (appel). Ambiguity and appeal, concepts originating in Beauvoir's moral philosophy, are in The Second Sex connected to the female body and...

Beauvoir's minoritarian philosophy.
September 22, 1999... Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's elaborations of the project of philosophy and styles of minoritarian literature, it becomes possible to reveal new dimensions in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In this work she uses a...

Preface.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... This special issue of Hypatia on the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir brings together papers from around the world, many of which were presented at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy and the Symposium of the International Association of...

The Blood of Others: A Novel Approach to The Ethics of Ambiguity.
September 22, 1999... In her essay "Litterature et metaphysique" (Beauvoit 1946; 1963), Simone de Beauvoit wrote that at eighteen her love was split between the concrete temporal world of fiction and the rigor of abstract philosophical systems. She held that...

Marriage, Autonomy, and the Feminine Protest.
September 22, 1999... FEMINISM AND THE FEMININE PROTEST To date most feminist discussions of marriage have been either critical or reactive. Having declared that it is immoral to treat married women as property and unjust to position the wife as subject to the...

Reciprocity and Friendship in Beauvoir's Thought.(Review)
September 22, 1999... For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a relation of reciprocal recognition. I discuss formulations of reciprocity and the problem of the other as outlined in Beauvoir's 1927 diary and her...

She Came to Stay and Being and Nothingness.
September 22, 1999... Since the time of Kierkegaard, existentialists have used fictional characters to convey their philosophical views. Presumably their reason for doing so was the belief that the total living individual is both the subject and the object of...

Sexuality Situated: Beauvoir on "Frigidity".
September 22, 1999... The term frigidity covers a wide range of meaning - including lacking in ardor or warmth; a marked aversion or abnormal indifference to sexuality; and a physical inability to attain orgasm. The word is, or was, usually applied to women. ...

Simone de Beauvoir's Notions of Appeal, Desire, and Ambiguity and their Relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre's Notions of Appeal and Desire.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir is often read as a writer whose contribution to philosophy is to have applied the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre to the woman's question. During the last ten years this misconception has come increasingly under attack.(1)...

Beauvoir's Minoritarian Philosophy.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy is (in)famously paradoxical and perplexing, and the responses to her work are wide-ranging and contradictory. One the one hand she is seen as a major contributor to both existentialist and feminist philosophy,...

Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Sexual Difference.
September 22, 1999... Simone de Beauvoir is not usually considered a philosopher, and her works, including The Ethics of Ambiguity (Pour une morale de l'ambiguite 1947) and The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme sexe 1949), are not usually studied as philosophical.(1) Beauvoir...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for Our Times.
September 22, 1999... Contemporary feminist theorists often declare that Simone de Beauvoir's thinking is rationalistic, too old-fashioned modernist, and above all male biased.(1) At the recent Fiftieth Anniversary of "The Second Sex" conference in Paris, the main...

Beauvoir, Ontology, and Women's Human Rights.
September 22, 1999... . . . it appears to us that by turning toward this freedom we are going to discover a principle of action whose range will be universal. Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity During an interview for Yale French Studies (1986), Helen...

The Self-Other Relation in Beauvoir's Ethics and Autobiography.
September 22, 1999... The ethical parameters of the Self-Other relation were a source of philosophical concern to Simone de Beauvoir from the beginning of her career. All of her literary and philosophical writing can be described as marked by a concern to map an...

Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism.(Review)
September 22, 1999... By MARGARET A. SIMONS. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. In recent years, scholars have begun to take Simone de Beauvoir seriously as a philosopher, rather than only as a novelist and essayist, and Margaret Simons has been at the...

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography.(Review)
September 22, 1999... By JO-ANN PILARDI. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. This book is a welcome contribution to Simone de Beauvoir studies and, more particularly, to critical studies of Beauvoir's autobiographical project. It aims to analyze...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction.(Review)
September 22, 1999... By EDWARD FULLBROOK and KATE FULLBROOK. New York: Polity Press/Blackwell, 1998. Edward and Kate Fullbrook's new book, Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (1998) builds on their earlier discovery, reported in Simone de Beauvoir and...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edited by ELIZABETH FALLAIZE. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. As this special volume attests, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Simone de Beauvoir. A number of books on her have been published in the last several...