The Death of Maternity? Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4008974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christie Mcdonald (0009-0000-8581-0237), Christie V Mcdonald (0000-0003-3765-6348, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Politics Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-6370 • E-ISSN: 1558-5271 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fpcs.2010.280205 |
| OpenAlex | W2071462671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Contrasting the view of motherhood in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex with the description of her mother's illness and death in A Very Easy Death, this essay examines the revelation of feelings previously unexplored in the relationship to her mother. Faced with a life-shattering experience, Beauvoir revisits issues not only about motherhood and maternity from her philosophical and sociological study, but her own feelings about her mother and disturbing ways in which doctors and families withheld knowledge from the dying in the mid-twentieth century
Feeling · Psychoanalysis · Revelation · Sociology · Theology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |