- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to Family Planning
- Preface to The Great Fear of Loving
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to The Sexually Responsive Woman
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to History: A Novel
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to Divorce in France
- Introduction to Women Insist
- Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to Mihloud
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- Chapter:
- (p.253) Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- Source:
- Feminist Writings
- Author(s):
- Marybeth Timmermann
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
When I started to write, many women writers [auteurs féminins] specifically refused to be classified in that category. Critics were happy to review our books in columns entitled “Works by Ladies,” and that irritated us. They wanted to confine us within the narrow limits of a world reserved for our sex: house, home, children, with a few escapes to nature and the cult of Love. We rejected the notion of women’s literature [...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to Family Planning
- Preface to The Great Fear of Loving
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to The Sexually Responsive Woman
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to History: A Novel
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to Divorce in France
- Introduction to Women Insist
- Preface to Through Women’s Eyes
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to Mihloud
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
