... in which women constantly renegotiate the needs of mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, this book throws the inherent tensions of motherhood...

...This chapter follows the parallel courses of various feminists'—Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Iris Marion Young—revaluations of pregnant embodiment and Hollywood's changing depictions of pregnancy. It presents developments in feminist thought, science, medicine, and popular film and relates...

...This chapter examines Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex and its place in contemporary French feminist discussions. In particular, it discusses the issues The Second Sex raises, the analyses it provides, and the criteria of justice it invokes in relation...

...This chapter explores the feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. She states that the failure to correlate with oneself is more than an inability to achieve one's self-serving goals. It also demonstrates the impossibility of caring for others and liberating them completely—to rescue them from...

..., how she met Jacques Lacan, whether she was a feminist before 1968, whether she was aware of what was going on in American feminism when May 1968 happened, and whether the name Psychanalyse et Politique is elitist. She also cites her meeting with Simone de Beauvoir, what lay behind the rift over...