Click here to read Nancy Bauer’s fine review of the new translation of The Second Sex, published in the electronic journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on August 14, 2011. Click here to find a number of reviews of the new English texts, including my own.
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On November 4th at 2:00 p.m. Toril Moi will lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex at NYU. The seminar will take place in the Maison Française (16, Washington Mews, NY, NY 1003 Tel. (212) 998-8750).
On November 5 at 4:00 p.m. Toril Moi will give a lecture entitled “Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Other: Reading Beauvoir with Cavell”. It will take place in the “Great Room” on the ground floor in 19, University Place (across the street from the Maison Française).
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I have posted a link to Meryl Altman’s defense of the new translation of The Second Sex under “Essays”, but include it here too. The essay appeared in the September 2010 issue of The Women’s Review of Books.
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Toril Moi will give the HSRRC Annual Lecture at the University of Nottingham (UK) at 5 p. m. on Tuesday 29 June, 2010, in the Arts Centre Lecture Theatre. The title of her lecture will be “What Does It Mean to Claim that Sex, Gender and the Body Are Socially Constructed?”
On Wednesday 30th June she will lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex, in the French Department at the University of Nottingham. The seminar will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Place TBA.
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On June 20, The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article by Carlin Romano on the new translation of The Second Sex. Mostly about my views on the translation. For a pdf file of the text, please go to “Essays”.
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I have uploaded my London Review of Books review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex under “Other Writing”. The pdf file contains all the letters to the editor as well. My own reply to the translators is included in the file, somewhere in the middle of the letters. You will also find my essay on the old translation of The Second Sex there, for comparison.
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Toril Moi’s review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is now available on the website of the London Review of Books.
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