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(2001) The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer.
The body as a basis for being
Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Suzanne Laba Cataldi
pp. 85-106
Beauvoir's understanding of the process of "becoming a woman' is related to the ambiguities, abilities, and disabilities of embodiment. Merleau-Pony "s notion of an ambivilant consciousness is applied to the question of woman's complicity in her own oppression. Beauvoir "s fictional accounts of women lacking in sexual desire are connected to her views of female eroticism in Le deuxième sexe and to Merleau-Ponty's notion of intimate perception.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_6
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Laba Cataldi, S. (2001)., The body as a basis for being: Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 85-106.
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