- 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 <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- 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 <i>History: A Novel</i>
- 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 <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.149) Introduction
- Source:
- Feminist Writings
- Author(s):
Ursula Tidd
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
“Women and Creativity” is an important text in Simone de Beauvoir’s corpus of nonfictional writing. It develops her arguments on gender and creativity first expounded in the second volume of The Second Sex and offers an oblique reflection on her own experience and “situation” as France’s most well-known woman intellectual and writer in the mid-1960s. Beauvoir delivered her lecture on “Women and Creativity” on September 22, 1966, the second in a series of three lectures she gave during a visit to Japan with Jean-Paul Sartre....
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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 <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- 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 <i>History: A Novel</i>
- 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 <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
