“Still, de Beauvoir does not conceive of women's activities as fully determined. ‘I shall place woman in a world of values and give her behavior a dimension of liberty,’ she says. ‘I believe that she has the power to choose between the assertion of her transcendence and her alienation as object; she is not the plaything of contradictory drives; she devises solutions of diverse ranking in the ethical scale.’”
Ascher’s fascinating, in-depth portrait of the life and works of one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir—writer, activist, intellectual adventurer, lover of freedom.
Author: Caroline Ascher
Title: Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: Boston: Beacon Press, 1981
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 254p
Condition: Near fine copy in good condition dust jacket with light edge wear & chipping, mild rubbing to surfaces, sunning to spine panel, and toning—in new protector.
Comments: Very clean copy
