Simone de Beauvoir

An in-depth study of Beauvoir as a philosopher, novelist, memoirist and feminist theorist. Understanding Beauvoir as an existentialist intellectual in mid-century France.Emphasis on The Second Sex. Wide-ranging reading of Beauvoir's novels, non-fiction, and memoirs, both with relevant philosophers and theorists, such as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and with more recent feminist theory.