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FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
1982
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De Beauvoir's Existentialist works , primarily Pour une
morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse
des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe,
affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining
Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The
novels, however, portray women who often fail the
Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal.
Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang
des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse
relationship between feminist convictions and personal
success. Having chosen not to depict female characters
as social activists or revolutionaries but as women in
love, de Beauvoir presents unhappy lovers unable to
achieve independence from the dominant male. In accord
with Existentialist precepts of realism, De Beauvoir's
fiction illustrates not her feminist ideal hut her view
of women's contemporary condition.
morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse
des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe,
affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining
Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The
novels, however, portray women who often fail the
Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal.
Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang
des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse
relationship between feminist convictions and personal
success. Having chosen not to depict female characters
as social activists or revolutionaries but as women in
love, de Beauvoir presents unhappy lovers unable to
achieve independence from the dominant male. In accord
with Existentialist precepts of realism, De Beauvoir's
fiction illustrates not her feminist ideal hut her view
of women's contemporary condition.
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56 p.
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Identifier
14113
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FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Date Backup
1982
Date Text
1982
Date Issued (EDTF)
1982
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FADT14113
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Person Preferred Name
ADNOT, GINETTE J.
Graduate College
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56 p.
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EXISTENTIALIST FEMINISM IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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Origin Information
1982
Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
EXISTENTIALIST FEMINISM IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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EXISTENTIALIST FEMINISM IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR