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Article: BEAUVOIR AND THE SECOND SEX: FEMINISM, RACE, AND THE ORIGINS OF EXISTENTIALISM.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- June 1, 1999
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BEAUVOIR AND THE SECOND SEX: FEMINISM, RACE, AND THE ORIGINS OF EXISTENTIALISM. By MARGARET SIMONS. Rowman & Littlefield. 262 pp. $25.95.
This collection of previously published materials wouldn't be worth noting, even briefly, were it not so perfectly representative of the low state to which certain sectors of the academy have sunk. Simons (of the Department of Philosophical Studies at Southern Illinois University) interviewed Simone de Beauvoir about Sartre, philosophy, and feminism, inter alia, while doing graduate work in Paris during the late '70s and early '80s; the text of those interviews is included here along with several essays on matters feminist. ...