TY - JOUR
T1 - Past Her Prime? Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Old Age
AU - Kirkpatrick, Katherine
N1 - Kate Kirkpatrick, 'Past her Prime? Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Old Age', Sophia, Vol. 53 (2): 275-287, June 2014, doi: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11841-014-0410-8.
PY - 2014/6/30
Y1 - 2014/6/30
N2 - Despite her reputation as the ‘Mother’ of second-wave feminism, Simone de Beauvoir is not usually heralded as a mother-friendly feminist. In The Second Sex, the passages dedicated to the female body—and especially the pregnant female body—have been dismissed as unfortunate expressions of internalized patriarchy or personal idiosyncrasy. By comparing Beauvoir’s later analysis of old age to aspects of the experience of pregnancy and early motherhood, this essay suggests that Beauvoir’s later work Old Age offers a rich untapped resource for understanding her thinking on maternity.
AB - Despite her reputation as the ‘Mother’ of second-wave feminism, Simone de Beauvoir is not usually heralded as a mother-friendly feminist. In The Second Sex, the passages dedicated to the female body—and especially the pregnant female body—have been dismissed as unfortunate expressions of internalized patriarchy or personal idiosyncrasy. By comparing Beauvoir’s later analysis of old age to aspects of the experience of pregnancy and early motherhood, this essay suggests that Beauvoir’s later work Old Age offers a rich untapped resource for understanding her thinking on maternity.
U2 - 10.1007/s11841-014-0410-8
DO - 10.1007/s11841-014-0410-8
M3 - Article
VL - 53
SP - 275
EP - 287
JO - Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions
JF - Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions
SN - 0038-1527
IS - 2
ER -