How does Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist philosophy speak to contemporary gender struggles? This timely book explores Beauvoir’s work in a sociological context, shedding light on the stalling gender revolution and women’s ongoing inequalities from adolescence to old age.
Introduction
1. An Overview of Beauvoir’s Contribution to Mapping a Woman’s Life Course
2. Becoming and Being the Second Sex
3. The Second Sex and the Double Standard of Ageing
4. Menopause as the Passage out of the Second Sex
5. Stepping into the Third Sex
6. Old Age as Unrealisable
7. Beauvoir’s Contribution to the Sociology of Gender
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