Re-reading the Second Sex: Theorizing the Situation

Feminist Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-150

  Stavro, Elaine ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agency; embodied reason; essentialism; relational subject; Sartre Beauvoir relationship; situational freedom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993736014     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14647000022229128     Document Type: Article

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