Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 182
Trim: 5¼ x 8½
978-0-8476-9785-4 • Paperback • March 2003 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-585-46190-8 • eBook • September 2004 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Sara Heinämaa is senior research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Chapter 1 The philosopher and the writer
Chapter 2 The living body
Chapter 3 Sexual and erotic bodies
Chapter 4 Questions about women
Chapter 5 A genealogy of subjection
Chapter 6 The mythology of femininity
In her exciting new book, Sara Heinämaa takes Beauvoir scholarship to a new level, a new depth, providing the definitive analysis of Beauvoir's appropriation of Husserlean phenomenology. Heinämaa gives the best analysis I've ever read of Beauvoir's account of women's oppression, solving interpretive riddles that have bothered me for years. It is a great book, one destined to become a classic.
— Margaret Simons, author of Beauvoir and the Second Sex
With great scholarly aplomb, Sara Heinämaa convincingly shows the phenomenological significance of Simone de Beauvoir's work. This is an excellent first book from an emerging philosophical talent.
— Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School for Social Research
Heinamaa's work is essential reading for its interpreters. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Heinämaa restores to Simone de Beauvoir her place within and beyond philosophy in this elegant and original rereading of her work. Here, Beauvoir comes into her own as a genuine thinker of life in its experienced complexity—a philosopher in the best sense of the word.
— Elizabeth Grosz, author of Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies