Simone de Beauvoir : a critical reader - Fallaize, Elizabeth (London ; New York : Routledge, 1998)
Introduction / Elizabeth Fallaize -- Readings of The Second Sex. Rereading The Second Sex / Judith Okely. Sex and gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex / Judith Butler. Beauvoir: the weight of situation / Sonia Kruks. 'Independent women' and 'Narratives of liberation' / Toril Moi. The master-slave dialectic in The Second Sex / Eva Lundgren-Gothlin -- Readings of the autobiography. The father in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Francis Jeanson. Murdering the mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Alex Hughes. Encounters with death in A Very Easy Death and The body in decline in Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre / Elaine Marks -- Readings of the fiction. Self-encounter in She Came to Stay / Hazel Barnes. She Came to Stay: the phallus strikes back / Jane Heath. Mythical discourse in 'The Woman Destroyed' / Anne Ophir. Narrative strategies and sexual politics in Beauvoir's fiction / Elizabeth Fallaize.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
Keywords: Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation