{"product_id":"political-writings-simone-de-beauvoir-9780252085949","title":"Political Writings","description":"\u003ci\u003ePolitical Writings\u003c\/i\u003e offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. \u003cp\u003eThe writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from expos s of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the \"two-state solution\" in Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simone de Beauvoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252085949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252085949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Simone de Beauvoir","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943556022527,"sku":"9780252085949","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b776b216-a637-4b7b-900f-762826fc8a5b.jpg?v=1681498763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-writings-simone-de-beauvoir-9780252085949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}