Simone de Beauvoir:
II. SELECTED SECONDARY SOURCES (Listed Chronologically)
Secondary sources have been selected according to the following criteria: (a) works explicitly discussing existential phenomenological themes in Beauvoir’s work; (b) works discussing Beauvoir’s philosophical relationship with existential phenomenology or existential phenomenological authors; (c) works elucidating Beauvoir’s personal relationship with Sartre and other representatives of existential phenomenology; (d) significant critical responses to Beauvoir’s philosophical writings, including those representative of early assessments of her work and those of significant philosophical or personal importance for Beauvoir. Recent philosophical works on Beauvoir have been consulted to assure the inclusion of those works having the greatest impact on recent scholarship in the field. In addition, The Philosopher’s Index on CD-ROM and Simone de Beauvoir: An Annotated Bibliography (by Joy Bennett and Gabriella Hochmann [New York: Garland, 1988]) have been particularly helpful. The latter provides annotations for many of the following entries, as well as a much larger selection of secondary sources on Beauvoir.
1945
Blanchot, Maurice. “Les Romans de Sartre.” L’Arc 2, no. 3 (October): 121-134.
Blin, Georges. “Simone de Beauvoir et le problème de l’action.” Fontaineno. 45 (October): 716- 730.
Borel, P. M. “Pyrrhus et Cineas.” L’Esprit 108 (March): 593-595.
Emmanuel, Pierre. “Reflexions sur une mise au point.” Fontaine no. 41 (April): 107-112.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. “Le Roman et la métaphysique.” Cahiers de sud 270 (March). Reprinted
in Sens et non-sens, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 34-52. Paris: Gallimard, 1996. Translated as “Metaphysics and the Novel” in Sense and Non-Sense, by Hubert Dreyfus and Patricia Dreyfus, 26-40. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964. Translation reprinted in Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Elain Marks, 31-44. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
Thiébaut, Marcel. Review of The Blood of Others. Révue de Paris 52, no. 9: 107-8.
1946
Magny, Claude-Edmonde. “Les Romans: Existentialisme et littérature.” Poesie (Paris) 46, no. 29 (January): 58-67.
1947
Anonymous. “De Beauvoir Speaks on Recent Literary Attitudes of France.” Vassar Miscellany News (12 February): 3-4.
Anonymous. “Existentialism’s Tenets Explained.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune (2 April).
Anonymous. “French Novelist Delivers Lecture to Group in French.” The Thresher. The Rice Institute (29 March).
Anonymous. “French Novelist Speaks at Vassar.” Poughkeepsie New Yorker (8 February).
Anonymous. “La Responsabilité de l’Écrivain.” Daily Princetonian (22 & 24 April).
Anonymous. “La Responsabilité de l’Écrivain.” Harvard University Gazette (18 April).
Anonymous. “Topic of Lecture is Existentialism.” Smith College Scan 41 (15 April): 1.
Domenach, J. M. L’Esprit 15, no. 4: 711-712.
Stock, Ernest. “La Responsabilité de l’écrivain.” Daily Princetonian no. 72 (22-24 April).
Sylvestre, Guy. “Existentialisme et littérature.” La Revue de l’Université de Laval 6: 423-433.
1948
Bays, Gwendolyn. “Simone de Beauvoir: Ethics and Art.” Yale French Studies no. 1 (Spring- Summer): 106-112.
Davy, M. M. Review of The Ethics of Ambiguity. Le Nef no. 39 (February): 148-150.
McLaughlin, Richard. “Mouthing Basic Existentialism.” Saturday Review of Literature 31, no. 29 (17 July): 13.
1949
Blanchot, Maurice. La Part de feu. Paris: Gallimard.
Child, Arthur. Review of The Ethics of Ambiguity. Ethics 59 (July): 292.
“Conditional Freedom.” Anonymous review of The Ethics of Ambiguity. Times Literary Supplement (London) (9 September): 589.
Cumming, Robert. Review of The Ethics of Ambiguity. Journal of Philosophy 46: 857-868.
Hartt, Julian N. “On the Possibility of an Existential Philosophy.” Review of Metaphysics 3: 95- 106.
Jolivet, Régis. “La Morale de l’ambiguité de Simone de Beauvoir.” Révue Thomiste 49, no. 1-2: 278-285.
Kemp, Robert. “Evadés de l’existentialisme.” Les Nouvelles littéraires (4 August): 2.
1950
Ames, Van Meter. “Existentialism: Irrational, Nihilistic.” The Humanist 10 (Fall): 15-22.
Hart, S. L. Review of The Ethics of Ambiguity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 10, no. 445-7.
Jeanson, Francis. “Simone de Beauvoir: Le Deuxième sexe.” Révue du caire 12 (March): 403-8.
1951
Caillet, Gérard. “Simone de Beauvoir.” Hommes et Mondes 6, no. 58 (May): 745-747.
Jenkins, Iredell. “Some Large Scale Moral Theorizing.” The Review of Metaphysics 5 (December):309-326.
Salvan, J. L. “Le Scandale de la multiplicité des consciences chez Huxley, Sartre, et Simone de Beauvoir.” Symposium 5, no. 2 (November): 198-215. Reprinted in J. L. Salvan, The Scandalous Ghost (Detroit: Wayne State, 1967).
1952
Grene, Marjorie. “Authenticity: An Existential Virtue.” Ethics 62, no. 4 (July): 266-273.
—–. “A nous la liberté.” New Republic 128 (9 March): 22-23.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. “The Subjection of Women.” Partisan Review 20, no. 3 (May-June): 321- 331.
Perroud, Robert. “Esistenzialismo, logica e sensibilità umana.” Vita e Pensiero 35 (October): 583-586.
1953
Mead, Margaret. “A SR Panel Takes Aim at The Second Sex.” Saturday Review of Literature 36, no. 8.
1954
De Boesdeffre, Pierre. “L’Oeuvre de Simone de Beauvoir.” Combat (9 December).
Reuillard, Gabriel. “Simone de Beauvoir—’papesse’ de l’existentialisme.” Paris-Normandie (17 February).
1955
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. “Les femmes sont-elles des hommes?” L’Express 88 (29 January): 4. Translated as “Are Women Men?”, by Michael B. Smith. In Texts and Dialogues, edited by Hugh J. Silverman and James Barry, Jr., 21-3. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1992.
Monnerot, Jules. “Zéro à Mme de Beauvoir.” Parisienne: Révue littérarie mensuelle 30 (July): 831-840.
Patri, Aimé. “Mme de Beauvoir et la pseudo-marxisme.” Preuves no. 56 (October): 94-5.
Peyre, Henri. “Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir.” The Contemporary French Novel, edited by Henri Peyre, 240-262. New York: Oxford University Press.
West, Anthony. “Prison of Wretchedness.” The New Yorker 30 (5 February): 109-112.
1956
Aron, Raymond. “Mme de Beauvoir et la pensée de droite.” Le Figaro Littéraire 12 (21 January): 5.
Murdoch, Iris. “At One Remove From Tragedy.” The Nation 182 (9 June): 493-494.
1957
Freehof, Solomon B. “Existentialism: World’s Despair.” Carnegie Magazine 31 (April): 120-125.
Nahas, Hélène. La Femme dans la littérature existentialiste. Paris: PUF.
1958
Genet, Jean. “Letter from Paris.” The New Yorker (8 November): 186-194.
1959
Barnes, Hazel. The Literature of Possibility: A Study in Humanistic Existentialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Robinet, André. “Le Glas de la littérature existentialiste de choc.” Critique 15 (March): 228-232.
1960
Chapsal, Madeleine. “A Union without Issue.” Reporter 23, no. 23: 40-46.
Otero, Lisandro. “Sartre y Beauvoir por la Provincia di Orienti.” Revolución (Cuba) (27 February).
1961
Girard, René. “Memoires of a Dutiful Existentialist.” Yale French Studies 27 (Spring-Summer): 41-6.
Mesnard, Pierre. “Le Pot-au-feu existentialist.” La France Catholique (10 March).
Prosch, Harry. “The Problem of Ultimate Justification.” Ethics 71 (April 1961): 155-174.
1962
Hourdin, Georges. Simone de Beauvoir et la liberté. Paris: Cerf.
1963
Donohue, H. E. F. Conversations with Nelson Algren. New York: Hill & Wang.
Mauriac, François. Review of Force of Circumstance. Le Figaro Littéraire no. 917 (14 November): 24.
Wasmund, Dagny. Der “Skandal” der Simone de Beauvoir. Munich: Max Huber.
1964
Fitch, Brian T. Le sentiment d’étrangeté chez Malraux, Sartre, Camus et Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Minard.
Houston, Mona Tobin. “The Sartre of Madame de Beauvoir.” Yale French Studies 30: 23-9.
Kleppner, Amy M. “Philosophy and the Literary Medium: The Existentialist Predicament.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 23, no. 2 (Winter): 207-218.
1965
Barrett, W. “Married in Heaven.” The Atlantic 215 (May): 150.
Beis, Richard H. “Atheistic Existentialist Ethics: A Critique.” The Modern Schoolman 42 (January): 153-178.
De Urmeneta, Férmén. “Sobre estética Sartreana-Beauvoiriana: Sartre o el existencialismo anticonformista.” Revista de Ideas Esteticas 23 (April-June): 39-42.
Gobeil, Madeleine. “Sartre Talks.” Vogue (New York) 146 (July): 72-3. Reprinted in Simone de Beauvoir, by Serge Julienne-Caffié, 38-43. Paris: Gallimard, 1966.
Kazin, Alfred. “Sartre’s Boswell.” Reporter 33 (1 July): 32.
Montagu, Ashley, and J. M. Demos. “Inscrutable Priestess: Letters to the Editor.” Harper’s Magazine 230 (6 January): 6.
Nelson, Algren. “The Question of Simone de Beauvoir.” Harper’s Magazine (May): 134-6.
Sturm, Douglas. “Natural Law and the Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir.” The Bucknell Review 11, no. 2 (May): 88-101.
1966
Berghe, Chr. L van der. Dictionnaire des idées dans l’oeuvre de Simone de Beauvoir. The Hague: Mouton.
Jeanson, Francis. Simone de Beauvoir ou l’enterprise de vivre. Paris: Seuil.
—–. “Une Prison de luxe.” Le Nouvel Observateur (14 December).
1968
Gagnebin, Laurent. Simone de Beauvoir ou le refus de l’indifférence. Paris: Fischbacher.
Sheridan, James F. “On Ontology and Politics, a Polemic.” Dialogue 7, no. 3: 449-460.
1969
Lilar, Suzanne. Le malentendu du Deuxième sexe. Paris: PUF.
1970
Durant, Will and Ariel Durant. “Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.” In Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature, edited by Will Durant and Ariel Durent. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Lasocki, Anne-Marie. Simone de Beauvoir ou l’enterprise d’écrire: essai de commentaire par les texts. The Hague: Nijhoff.
1971
Cismaru, Alfred. “Enduring Existentialists. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in their Golden Age.” Antioch Review 31 (1971-2): 557-64.
Schüler, Gerda. “Simone de Beauvoir.” In Franzosische Literatur der Gegenwart in
Einzeldarstellungen, edited by W. D. Lange, 193-212. Stuttgart: Kröner.
1972
Algren, Nelson. “How to Break the Silence Conspiracy Over Old Age.” Los Angeles Times (25 June).
Coles, Robert. “Old Age.” The New Yorker 48 (19 August): 68-78.
Jeanson, Francis. “La Rencontre du Castor.” In Sartre dans sa Vie, 49-68. Paris: Seuil.
1973
Cayron, Claire. La nature chez Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallimard.
Marks, Elaine. Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Mead, Margaret. Review of The Coming of Age. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 43, no. 3: 470-474.
1974
Grether, Judith K. “Existentialism and the Oppression of Women.” The Insurgent Socialist 5, no. 1 (Fall): 25-40.
1975
Cixous, Hélène. “La Rire de Madusa.” L’Arc 61. Translated as “The Laugh of Medusa.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 1 (1976): 875-99.
Clément, Catherine, ed. Simone de Beauvoir et la lutte des femmes. Special Issue of L’Arc 61.
Contat, Michel. “Entretien avec Jean-Paul Sartre.” Le Nouvel Observateur no. 544-6 (23 June, 30 June, 7 July): 66-88; 64-80; 68-74.
Friedan, Betty. “No Gods, No Goddesses.” Saturday Review (14 June): 16-7.
Genet, Jean. “La Religion de l’adolescent.” L’Action Nationale 65 (1 September): 55-65.
1976
Anderson, Thomas C. “Freedom as Supreme Value: The Ethics of Sartre and de Beauvoir.” American Catholic Philosophical Association: Procedings of the Annual Meeting 50: 60-71.
John, Helen James. “The Promise of Freedom in the Thought of Simone de Beauvoir: How an Infant Smiles.” American Catholic Philosophical Association: Procedings of the Annual Meeting 50: 72-81.
Lobato, Abelardo. La Pregunta por le Mujer. Salamanca: Siguene.
1977
Chaine, Catherine. “Entretien: Jean-Paul Sartre et les femmes.” Le Nouvel Observateur 638-9 (31 January and 7 February): 74-85; 64-82.
1979
Anderson, Thomas. The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics. Lawrence, KS: Regents Press.
Astruc, Alexandre and Michel Contat. Sartre. Un film realisé par Alexandre Austruc at Michel Contat avec la participation de Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques-Laurent Bost, Andre Gorz et Jean Pouillon. Texte Intégral. Paris: Gallimard.
Audet, Jean-Raymond. Simone de Beauvoir face à la mort. Lausanne: Éditions l’age d’homme.
Clément, Catherine. “Les Pelures du réel.” Magazine Littéraire no. 145 (February): 25-27. Translated as “Peelings of the Real” in Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir, edited and translated by Elain Marks, 170-2. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.
Craig, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in the Light of the Hegelian Master-Slave Dialectic and Sartrian Existentialism. PhD Dissertation. University of Edinburgh.
Le Doeuff, Michèle. “De l’existentialisme au Deuxiéme Sexe.” Le Magazine Littéraire 145 (February): 18-21.
—–. “Operative Philosophy: Simone de Beauvoir and Existentialism.” Translated by Colin Gordon. Ideology and Consciousness 6 (Autumn): 47-57. Reprinted in Feminist Studies 6 (Summer 1980): 277-89. Also reprinted in Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Elaine Marks, 144-54. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
Francis, Claude and Fernande Gontier. Les Écrits de Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallimard.
Hanson, Linda. “Pain and Joy in Human Relationships: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.”Philosophy Today 23 (Winter): 338-346.
McCall, Dorothy Kaufmann. “Existentialisme ou féminisme.” Obliques 2, no. 18-9: 311-320.
—–. “Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Jean-Paul Sartre.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5 (Winter): 209-23.
1980
Algren, Nelson. “Last Rounds in Small Cafés: Remembrances of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.” Chicago 29 (December): 210-213, 237-240.
Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal. “Seeing The Second Sex Through the Second Wave.” Feminist Studies 6 (Summer 1980): 247-276.
Greene, Naomi. “Sartre, Sexuality, and The Second Sex.” Philosophy and Literature (Fall 1980): 199-211.
Keefe, Terence. “Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre on mauvaise foi.” French Studies (Oxford) 34 (3 July): 300-314.
Le Doeuff, Michèle. “Colloque Féministe à New York: Le Deuxieme Sexe trente ans après.” Questions Féministes no. 7 (February): 103-9.
1981
Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon.
Keefe, Terence. “‘Heroes of our Times’ in Three of the Stories of Camus and Simone de Beauvoir.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 17, no. 1: 39-54.
Simons, Margaret A. “Beauvoir and Sartre: The Question of Influence.” Eros 8, no. 1: 25-42.
Whitmarsh, Anne. Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1982
Barnes, Hazel. “Simone de Beauvoir’s Autobiography as a Biography of Sartre.” French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French 55, no. 7: 79-100.
Biagini, Enza. Simone de Beauvoir. Firenze: La Nuova Italia.
Borne, Etienne. “Sartre en son Miroir.” La Croix (15 January).
Morris, Phyllis. “The Lived Body: Some Patterns of Identification and Otherness.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13 (October): 216-225.
Zéphir, Jacques J. Le néo-féminisme de Simone de Beauvoir: trente ans aprés Le deuxième sexe: un post-scriptum. Paris: Denoël/Gonthier.
1983
Hartsock, Nancy. Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Keefe, Terry. Simone de Beauvoir: A Study of her Writings. London: Harrap.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Lettres au Castor. 2 vols. Edited by Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallimard. Volume 1 translated as Witness to my Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1929-1939, by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992; Volume 2 translated as Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-1963, by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MavAfee. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.
Simons, Margaret A. “The Silencing of Simone de Beauvoir: Guess What’s Missing from The Second Sex.” Women’s Studies International Forum 6: 231-8.
1984
Hatcher, Donald. Understanding ‘The Second Sex.’ New York: Peter Lang.
Lloyd, Genevieve. The Man of Reason. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Seigfried, Charlene H. “Gender-Specific Values.” Philosophical Forum (Boston) 15 (Summer): 425-442.
Zéphir, Jacques J. “Simone de Beauvoir et la femme.” Revue d’Université Ottowa 54 (Jan.- March): 37-53.
1985
Barnes, Hazel E. “Beauvoir and Sartre: The Forms of Farewell.” Philosophy and Literature 19 (April): 21-40.
Dallery, Arleen. “Sexual Embodiment: Beauvoir and French Feminism.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 3. Special Issue of Women’s Studies International Forum 8: 197-208. Reprinted in Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy, edited by Azizah Y. Al-Hibri and Margaret A. Simons, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Francis, Claude, and Fernande Gonthier. Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Perrin. Translated as Simone de Beauvoir, by Lisa Nesselson. London: Sidgewick, 1987.
Singer, Linda. “Interpretation and Retrieval: Rereading de Beauvoir.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 3. Special Issue of Women’s Studies International Forum 8: 231-8. Reprinted in Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy, edited by Azizah Al-Hibri and Margaret A. Simons, 323-35. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Also reprinted in her Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politis on the Age of Epidemic, 131-44. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1993.
1986
Bair, Dierdre. “Simone de Beauvoir: Politics, Language, and Feminist Identity.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 149-162.
Barou, Jean-Pierre. “Un Carnet retrouvé—Simone de Beauvoir de Cour Désir.” Le Mondes des livres (30 May).
Butler, Judith. “Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 35-49.
—–. “Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, and Foucault.” Praxis International 5 (January): 505-516. Reprinted in Feminism as Critique, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell.
Celeux, Anne-Marie. Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, une expérience commune, duex écritures. Paris: Nizet.
Fage, Nelly. “Le Castor rouge: La Presse.” Lesbia no. 40 (June 1986): 36.
Friedlander, Judith. “The Anti-Semite and the Second Sex: A Cultural Reading of Sartre and Beauvoir.” In Women in Culture and Politics, edited by Judith Friedlander et al., Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Keefe, Terry. French Existentialist Fiction: Changing Moral Perspectives. Totowa: Barnes & Noble.
Mackenzie, Catriona. “Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy and/or the Body.” In Feminist Challenges, edited by Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Gross, 144-156. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Marks, Elain. “Transgressing the (In)cont(in)ent Boundaries: The Body in Decline.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 181-200.
McCall, Dorothy Kaufmann. “Simone de Beauvoir: Questions of Difference and Generation.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 121-32.
Moi, Toril. “Exisentialism and Feminism: The Rhetoric of Biology in The Second Sex.” Oxford Literary Review 8: 88-95.
Nye, Andrea. “Preparing the Way for a Feminist Praxis.” Hypatia 1 (Spring): 101-116.
Simons, Margaret A. “Beauvoir and Sartre: The Philosophical Relationship.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 165-79. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Eros 8 (1981).
Simons, Margaret A., Yolanda Astarita Patterson, and Dierdre Bair. “In Memoriam.” In Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century, edited by Hélène Wenzel. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72: 203-215.
Wenzel, Hélène, ed. Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century. Special Issue of Yale French Studies 72.
1987
Girard, René. “Memoirs of a Dutiful Existentialist.” In Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Elain Marks, 84-88. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
de Lacoste, Guillemine. “Simone de Beauvoir: From the Creation of a ‘New Man’ to Obsession with Death.” Philosophy Today 31 (Winter 1987): 306-335.
Marks, Elaine, ed. Critical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
Moi, Toril, ed. French Feminist Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
Stone, Robert. “Simone de Beauvoir and the Existential Basis of Socialism.” Social Text 17 (Fall 1987): 123-133.
Zephir, Jacques J. “Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir: Une relation de couple authentique.” Petite Revue Philosophiques 8 (Spring 1987): 1-28.
1988
Bennett, Joy, and Gabriella Hochmann. Simone de Beauvoir: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988.
Kruks, Sonia. “Simone de Beauvoir: Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.” Simone de Beauvoir Studies 5: 74-80.
Leon, Celine T. “Simone de Beauvoir’s Woman: Eunich or Male?” Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding 11 (Spring), 196-211. Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 137-159. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Nye, Andrea. “A World without Women: The Existentialist Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir.” In her Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man., 73-114. New York: Routledge.
Spellman, Elisabeth V. “Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just who does she think ‘We’ is?” In her Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought, 57-79. Boston: Beacon.
1989
Allen, Jeffner. “An Introduction to Patriarchal Existentialism: A Proposal for a Way out of Existential Patriarchy.” In The Thinking Muse, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young, 71-84. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Allen, Jeffner and Iris Marion Young (eds.). The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Butler, Judith. “Gendering the Body: Beauvoir’s Philosophical Contribution.” In Women, Knowledge,and Reality, edited by Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, 253-62. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Duval, Nathalie. “Etude de la réception littéraire du Deuxième Sexe de Simone de Beauvoir au Québec francophone et au Canada anglophone.” Maîtrise. Université Paris X Nanterre.
Hatcher, Donald L. “Existential Ethics and Why it’s Immoral to be a Housewife.” Journal of Value Inquiry 23 (March): 59-68.
Kuykendall, Eléanor H. “Simone de Beauvoir and Two Kinds of Ambivalence in Action.” In The Thinking Muse, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young, 35-50. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Le Doeuff, Michéle. L’Etude et rouet. Paris: Seuil. Translated by Trista Selous as Hipparchia’s Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
Pilardi, Jo-Ann. “Female Eroticism in the Works of Simone de Beauvoir.” In The Thinking Muse, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young, 18-34. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Previous version published under the name Jo-Ann P. Fuchs, “Female Eroticism in The Second Sex,” Feminist Studies 6 (Summer 1980): 304-313.
1990
Al-Hibri, Azizah, and Margaret A. Simons, eds. Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books.
—–. “Simone, Sartre, and Sex.” The Observer (May 20): 47-8.
Duval, Nathalie. “Simone de Beauvoir: rejects, controverses et légitimation ou la réception de Simone de Beauvoir en Amérique du Nord francophone et anglophone (Québec, Canada et Etats-Unis).” DEA Dissertation. Université Paris X Nanterre, 1990.
Kruks, Sonia. Situation and Human Existence. Boston: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall.
Moi, Toril. Feminist Theory and Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
—–. “Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman.” The Yale Journal of Criticism
4: 1-23. Reprinted as Chapter Two of her Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, 37-72. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994.
Savigneau, Josyane. “Cher petit vous autre.” Review of Lettres à Sartre. Le Monde (February 28): 21 and 26.
Simons, Margaret A. “Sexism and the Philosophical Canon: On Reading Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.” Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (July-September): 487-504.
Webster, Paul. “Second Sex in Person.” Review of Lettres à Sartre. Guardian (February 24): 3.
1991
Aronson, Ronald, ed. Sartre Alive. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Barnes, Hazel. “Simone de Beauvoir’s Journal and Letters: A Poisoned Gift?” Simone de Beauvoir Studies: The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre 8: 13-29.
Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Boston: Twayne.
Gatens, Moira. “Woman as the Other.” In Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality, 48-59. Bloominton: Indiana University Press.
Gilbert, Joseph. Une si douce occupation . . . Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre, 1940- 1944. Paris: Albin Michel.
Idt, Genevieve. “Simone de Beauvoir’s Adieux: A Funeral Rite and a Literary Challenge.” In Sartre Alive, edited by Ronald Aronson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Irigaray, Luce. “Equal or Different?” Translated by David Macey. In The Irigaray Reader, edited by Margaret Whitford, 30-3. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Kruks, Sonia. “Simone de Beauvoir: Teaching Sartre about Freedom.” In Sartre Alive, edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian van den Hoven. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 79-95. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1995. An earlier version published in Les Temps Modernes 45, no. 520 (November 1989).
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva. Kön och existens. Studier I Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Le Deuxième Sexe.’ Göteborg: Daidalos. Translated as Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoirs ‘The Second Sex. London: Athlone, 1996; New England: Wesleyan University Press, 1996).
Nordquist, Joan. Simone de Beauvoir: A Bibliography. Social Theory: A Bibliographic Series, no. 23. Santa Cruz: Reference & Research.
Pilardi, Jo-Ann. “Philosophy becomes Autobiography: The Development of the Self in the Writings of Simone de Beauvoir.” In Writing the Politics of Difference, edited by Hugh J. Silverman, 145-62. Albany: SUNY Press.
1992
Bergoffen, Debra. “The Look as Bad Faith.” Philosophy Today 36 (Fall): 221-227.
Dietz, Mary. “Introduction: Debating Simone de Beauvoir.” Signs: Journal of Women in Society and Culture 18: 74-88.
Fraser, Nancy, and Sandra Lee Bartky, eds. Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Hayman, Ronald. “Having Wonderful Sex, Wish You Were Here.” New York Times Book Review 19 (July): 13-14.
Kruks, Sonia. “Gender and Subjectivity: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism.” Signs 18: 89-110.
Moi, Toril. “Ambiguity and Alienation in The Second Sex.” Boundary 2 19 (1992): 96-112. Reprinted as part of Chapter Six of her Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994.
1993
Fauser, Patricia. “Authentic Existence in Simone de Beauvoir’s She Came to Stay.” Procedings of the Catholic Philosophical Association 67: 203-217.
Mahon, Joseph. “Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir.” History of European Ideas 17 (Spring): 651-658.
Pilardi, Jo-Ann. “The Changing Critical Fortunes of The Second Sex.” History and Theory 32: 51-73. A shorter version reprinted as “Feminists Read The Second Sex,” in Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 29-43. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
1994
Fullbrook, Kate, and Edward Fullbrook. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend. New York: BasicBooks.
Langer, Monika. “A Philosophical Retrieval of Simone de Beauvoir’s Pour une morale de l’ambiguite.” Philosophy Today 38 (Summer): 181-190.
Le Doeuff, Michèle. “Simone de Beauvoir, les ambiguïtés d’un ralliement.” Magazine Littéraire no. 320 (April). Translated by Margaret A. Simons as “Simone de Beauvoir: Falling into (Ambiguous) Line.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 59-65. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva. “Simone de Beauvoir and Ethics.” History of European Ideas 19: 899- 903.
Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
Simons, Margaret A. “Beauvoir and the Roots of Radical Feminism.” In Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, edited by Stephen Watson and Lenore Langsdorf. Albany: SUNY Press. A shorter version was reprinted as “The Second Sex: From Marxism to Radical Feminism,” in Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 243-262. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
1995
Allen, Jeffner. “A Response to a Letter from Peg Simons, December 1993.” In Feminist
Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 113-135. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Arens, Katherine. “Between Hypatia and Beauvoir: Philosophy as Discourse.” Hypatia 10 (Fall): 46-75.
Arp, Kristana. “Beauvoir’s Concept of Bodily Alienation.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 161-177. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Bergoffen, Debra. “Out from Under: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of the Erotic.” In Feminist
Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 179-192. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Chanter, Tina. “The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir.” In her Ethics of Eros: Irigaray’s Rewriting of the Philosophers, 47-79. New York: Routledge.
Fullbrook, Kate. “Sartre’s Secret Key.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 97-111. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Holveck, Eleanore. “Can a Woman Be a Philosopher? Reflections on a Beauvoirian Housemaid.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 67-78. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva. “Gender and Ethics in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.” Nordic Journal for Women’s Studies (NORA), 1.
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Vintges, Karen. Philosophy as Passion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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Ward, Julie K. “Beauvoir’s Two Senses of ‘Body’ in The Second Sex.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, 223-242. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Weiss, Gail. “Ambiguity, Absurdity, and Reversibility: Responses to Indeterminacy.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (January): 43-51.
1996
Bergoffen, Debra. “From Husserl to de Beauvoir: Gendering the Perceiving Subject.” Metaphilosophy 27 (January): 53-62.
Bergoffen, Debra. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities. Albany: SUNY Press.
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva. “Ethics, Feminism and Postmodernism: Seyla Benhabib and Simone de Beauvoir.” Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 20.