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18 septembre 2019
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Mary Pepchinski, « Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day », ABE Journal, ID : 10.4000/abe.6956
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Life in France at the mid-twentieth century was extremely patriarchal and oppressive towards women. It is against this context that Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) viewed cities as the sites of great personal liberation, where she had the potential to move freely and make unencumbered decisions about her life. Written during the gestation of The Second Sex, her book, America Day by Day [L’Amérique au jour le jour], a fictionalized account of two journeys taken through the United States in 1947...