Sex, love, and letters : writing Simone de Beauvoir

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Author(s): Judith G. Coffin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2020

Language: English
City: Ithaca, New York

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Intimate Life of the Nation: Reading The Second Sex in 1949
2. Beauvoir, Kinsey, and Midcentury Sex
3. Readers and Writers
4. The Algerian War and the Scandal of Torture
5. Shame as Political Feeling
6. Second Takes on The Second Sex
7. Couple Troubles
8. Sexual Politics and Feminism
Conclusion
Notes
Archival Sources
Index