Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism by Bauer, Nancy - 2001

New York U. S. A.: Columbia University Press. As New with no dust jacket 2001. Second Printing. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree Fine perf-bound in full gray linen w/ black titles, no dj; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.87 x 9.3 x 6.32 Inches; 303 pages; In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. In exploring what it might mean to philosophize as a woman, Beauvoir produced a book that not only sparked the contemporary feminist movement but also, Bauer argues, made an important but still profoundly undervalued contribution to the philosophical tradition.BooknewsBauer (philosophy, Tufts U.) argues that in formulating the question of what kind of problem being a woman poses, Beauvoir's dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem, that is, a problem for and of philosophy. The book's central achievement, she says, to forge connections between the idea of being a woman and the idea of philosophy, to bind the overcoming of the problem of being a woman with overcoming a certain conception of the philosophical. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR .