Word: beauvoirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend Sally that "the ceremony begins with the bride being given away." "Excuse me," she says. "Given away? Like an object? As in, free girl with every large fries?" The show is packed with many such consciousness-raising insights-insights that may have been trenchant back when Simone de Beauvoir was drafting The Second Sex. Third Rock's creators, veteran Saturday Night Live writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, have described the show as "Carl Sagan meets the Marx Brothers." In reality, it's Maude meets Mork & Mindy...
...army experiences during World War II was published in Paris. The work, titled Notebook from the Phony War, describes the renowned existentialist's boredom and exasperation with army life and contains affectionate references to "my dear Beaver"-that is, his mistress and close companion, the writer Simone de Beauvoir. Scholars hailed the book as the most interesting of Sartre's wartime writings...
What other 19th century novel that aims to teach girls conventional morals and decorum has been so enshrined in the feminist honor roll? In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir recalls it fondly; of course, she identified with the bold, artistic Jo. In a 1983 essay, feminist Nina Auerbach suavely co-opts Alcott, concentrating on Marmee's counsel against materialism and Jo's determination to be unconventional...
...rhetorical practices which create worldwide conceptions of identity. He challenges his reader to refuse blind acceptance of racial categories. Before classifying individuals or groups of individuals as "Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested in the history of the idea of race rather than its current...
...some work-study jobs and books by de Beauvoir...