Political Writings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23138075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone De Beauvoir (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Margaret A Simons, Marybeth Timmermann |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Political writings (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252036941.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4239130659 |
| Open Library | OL25177589M |
| ISBN | 9780252036941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book offers an abundance of newly translated essays by the author that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The book documents and contextualizes the author’s thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. It traces nearly three decades of her leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the “two-state solution” in Israel. Together these texts prefigure the author’s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization. The book provides new insights into the author’s complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women’s rights in France.
Biography · Context (archaeology) · Left-wing politics · Media studies · Political activism · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature · 20th century · Aging · Arab-Israeli conflict · Economic aspects · Fires · French literature · French literature, history and criticism · History and criticism · Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) · Social conditions
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |