Nancy Bauer, Simone de Beauvoir. Philosophie et féminisme, New York, Columbia University Press, sept. 2001.
Relecture du Deuxième sexe.
Quatrième de couverture:
In the introduction of The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishinq himself as on individual of a certain sex: his being a mon poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by askinq: "Then what kind of a problem does beinq a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answerinq this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent ta which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists ta turn, or return ta, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between women and philosophy that remains profoundly undervalued. She argues that the extraordinary effect The Second Sex has had on women's lives, then and now, can be traced ta Beauvoir's discovery of a new way ta philosophize-a way grounded in her identity as a woman. In offering a new interpretation of The Second Sex, Bauer shows how philosophy can be politically productive for women while remaininq genuinely philosophical.