{"product_id":"simone-de-beauvoir-philosophy-and-feminism-9780231116640","title":"Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nancy Bauer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex.\u003c\/i\u003e Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced to Beauvoir's discovery of a new way to philosophize--a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex, \u003c\/i\u003e Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaining genuinely philosophical.","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086348443799,"sku":"9780231116640","price":6615.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780231116640.webp?v=1767639019","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/simone-de-beauvoir-philosophy-and-feminism-9780231116640","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}