@book{2004:heinmaa:toward_a_p,
title = {Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference},
year = {2004},
note = {Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively
since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have
taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding
Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference,
Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers those neglected passages in her quest to
follow Beauvoir's line of thinking. HeinSmaa, like some other recent
philosophers, finds that Le Duexi_me Sexe is a philosophical inquiry,
not the empirical study it is commonly thought to be. Others who view
Beauvoir's masterpiece as a work of philosophy argue it is a criticism
not only of Sartrean phenomenology, but of phenomenology as a whole.
HeinSmaa thinks differently. She finds that Beauvoir's starting point
is the Husserlian idea of the living body that she found developed in
Merleau-Ponty's PhZnomZnologie de la perception. So when Beavoir wrote
Le Duexi_me Sexe, she was writing not as Sartre's pupil, but as a
scholar in the tradition of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Heinämaa, Sara}
}