The Simone de Beauvoir Society's 12th International Conference, Simone de Beauvoir returns to California will be held May 21-23, 2004. The conference is organized by Professor Gisèle Kapuscinski at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Featured speakers will be Beauvoir authorized biographer Deirdre Bair and prolific writer Dominique Desanti, with presenters converging from England, Sweden, France, Canada, and various parts of the United States. For registration forms and more information, please contact either Dr. Kapuscinski at gkapuscinski@miis.edu or Yolanda Patterson at guyyopat@aol.com.
Ulrika Bjork will chair a session on international research in Beauvoir's thought at the upcoming International Association for Women Philosophers (IAPh) meeting in Gteborg, Sweden (June 16-20, 2004). Maria Joo, Marja Suhonen, Julie K. Ward, and Sonia Kruks will discuss Beauvoir's ethics, views on lesbianism, conception of human flourishing, and reflections on the politics of privilege on Friday, June 18. For more information, www.iaph2004.com
The Simone de Beauvoir Circle will be represented at the Third World Congress of Phenomenology, to be held at Wadham College, Oxford, UK from August 15-21, 2004, with a panel entitled Disclosure and Differentiation: The Genesis of Beauvoir's Philosophical Voice. Panelists include Edward Fullbrook, Kristana Arp, and Laura Hengehold. See www.phenomenology.org for more information. Gallimard has just published a collection of Beauvoir's correspondence with Jacques-Laurent Bost, edited by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. The collection is entitled Correspondance Croisee, 1937-1940, and sells for 33,25 E on www.alapage.com. Let your libraries know! More theater: the Brits Off Broadway Theatre Company in NYC has recently produced a well-reviewed version of The Monologue from Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed at the 59 E. 59 Theater. British actress Muriel Quick performed her own translation of Beauvoir's text. (see New York Times review of May 13, 2004)
Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford University Press (May 2004), $35.00 (paper). Contains papers from the 1999 conference at Penn State University commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex. Contributors include Michele Le Doeuff, Toril Moi, Claude Imbert, Catherine Wilson, Nancy Bauer, Susan James, Anne Stevenson, and Emily Grosholz.
Australian Journal of French Studies. Autour de Michèle le Doeuff. Intro, by Jean Fornasiero and Margaret Sankey; Merideth Sherlock, Technical Editor. Monash University; Aristoc Offset Press, Glen Waverly, Victoria 3150. Includes an article by Amanda Macdonald comparing Le Doeuff's image of Beauvoir to that of other authors, along with work by Marguerite la Caze, Eileen O'Neill, David Norbrook, Max Deutscher, Elizabeth Fallaise, Nicole Mosconi, and Penelope Deutscher, along with a dialogue and postface by le Doeuff. To order, www.elecpress.monash.edu.au/french
Monteil, Claudine. The Beauvoir Sisters: An Intimate Look at How Simone and Helene Influenced Each Other and the World. Seal Press (June 2004), $14.95 (paper). English translation of Monteil's dual biography, mainly following Helene de Beauvoir.
Raynova, Yvanka and Suzanne Moser. Simone de Beauvoir: 50 Jahre Nach dem Anderen Geschlecht. Peter Lang Publishing (February 2004), $57.95 (hardcover). A multilingual collection of papers from the Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe conference (Paris), with a selected bibliography and reviews of other commemorative conferences at Vienna and Penn State University in 1999. www.peterlang.com
Fredrika Scarth. The Other Within: Ethics, Politics and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. Rowman and Littlefield (August 2004), $24.95 (paper). Builds on recent studies that treat The Second Sex as an ethical text, with a focus on Beauvoir's views about the female body in general and maternity in particular. www.rowmanlittlefield.com
Tidd, Ursula. Simone de Beauvoir. Routledge (March 2004), $14.95 (paper). Routledge Critical Thinkers Series. Provides an introduction to key themes in literature and theoretical texts.
Veltman, Andrea. The Sisyphean Torture of Housework: Simone de Beauvoir and Inequitable Divisions of Domestic Work in Marriage, Hypatia 19(4), 2004. Examines Beauvoir's account of marriage in The Second Sex and argues that her dichotomy between transcendence and immanence provides an illuminating critique of continuing gender inequities in marriage and domestic work.
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