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978-0-7425-3475-9 • Hardback • November 2004 • $125.00 • (£85.00)
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Fredrika Scarth is an instructor in the women's studies program at the University of Toronto.
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Rethinking the Body
Chapter 3 I The Body in Political Thought
Chapter 4 II Simone de Beauvoir: a difficult legacy
Chapter 5 III Reading Simone de Beauvoir as a Political Theorist
Part 6 Simone de Beauvoir: A Masculine Mother
Chapter 7 Introduction
Chapter 8 I The Second Sex and "Simone de Beauvoir"
Chapter 9 II The Second Sex and feminist history
Chapter 10 III The Second Sex and feminist generations
Chapter 11 IV A feminist mother with masculine values?
Chapter 12 V The 'body problem' in The Second Sex
Chapter 13 i) The Body as a Philosophical Problem
Chapter 14 ii) 'Horror' of the Body
Chapter 15 Conclusion: Beyond the First Generation
Part 16 Coming of Age: Ambiguity and the Freedom of Others
Chapter 17 Introduction
Chapter 18 I The Legacy Of Descartes: Subjectivity, Dualism And Solipsism
Chapter 19 II Beauvoir: Between Sartre And Merleau-Ponty
Chapter 20 III Coming Of Age
Chapter 21 IV Pyhrrus et Cinéas : Freedoms Are Interdependent
Chapter 22 V The Ethics of Ambiguity : Freedom and Conversion
Chapter 23 i) Ambiguity
Chapter 24 ii) The Desire to Be
Chapter 25 iii) Conversion and Coming of Age
Chapter 26 iv) The Desire to Be and Others
Chapter 27 v) The Desire to Disclose and Others: Generosity
Chapter 28 Conclusion
Chapter 29 The Second Sex: Ambiguity and the Body
Chapter 30 Introduction
Chapter 31 I Beauvoir's critique of the masculine subject
Chapter 32 i) Subject and Other
Chapter 33 II: The Body and Ambiguity
Chapter 34 i) Biology
Chapter 35 ii) Mythology
Chapter 36 iii) Lived Experience
Chapter 37 III: Modes of subjectivity: the temptations of mastery and the possibility of generosity
Chapter 38 i) Risking: Subjectivity as Transcendence
Chapter 39 ii) Generosity: the Erotic as Risk and Gift of Self
Chapter 40 Conclusion
Part 41 Bodies at Risk: The Meanings of Maternity
Chapter 42 Introduction
Chapter 43 I Beauvoir's Rhetorical War
Chapter 44 II Free Maternity
Chapter 45 III Maternal subjects?
Chapter 46 i) Ambiguity
Chapter 47 ii) Creativity
Chapter 48 iii) Risk
Chapter 49 Conclusion
Part 50 Others Within: From Ethics to Politics
Chapter 51 I Refiguring Subjectivity
Chapter 52 II From Ethics to Politics
Chapter 53 i) Oppression and the body-as-flesh
Chapter 54 ii) Ethics and political liberation: the limits of liberation
Chapter 55 iii) Otherness within
Chapter 56 BIBLIOGRAPHY214
Scarth's project entails a deep rethinking of embodiment and its relation to human freedom and she brilliantly succeeds in this rethinking, showing the relevance of Beauvoir's work for yet another generation of feminists.
— Linda Zerilli, professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
[Scarth's] focus on the role and representation of the female body in Beauvoir's essay, and particularly on the maternal body, gives her analysis a clear and original focus.
— Times Literary Supplement, (Uk)
Thoughtful and nuanced…an excellent introduction to some of the key debates that have sprung up in recent years in relation to The Second Sex. If offers a well-informed, subtle and often persuasive analysis of Beauvoir's text in the light of her essays on ethics.
— H-France Review
The Other Within is Fredrika Scarth's passionate defense of The Second Sex against those feminist critics who charge Beauvoir with presenting a masculinist account of female embodiment. It is the most thorough-going and effective response to Beauvoir's feminist critics that I have ever seen.
— Margaret Simons, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville