Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

CHAPTER 24: DAUGHTERS AND LOVERS

1. See the letter, written in early 1944, where he is competing with Camus for a young woman. Simone de Beauvoir (editor), Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1940–1963, London: Hamish Hamilton, translators Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee, 1994. page 263. And, in Simone de Beauvoir, Adieu: A Farewell to Sartre, London: André Deutsch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, she made a dignified and moving tribute.

2. Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, Simone de Beauvoir, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987, page 207.

3. Ibid., page 235.

4. Deidre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir, London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, pages 325, 379–80.

5. Bair, Op. cit., page 379.

6. Bair, Op. cit., page 380.

7. See the discussions in Bair, Op. cit., page 383, chapter 40.

8. See Francis and Gontier, Op. cit., page 251, for its reception in France; and page 253 for its being placed on the Index.

9. Bair, Op. cit., page 387. And see: Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, pages 155ff for a psychoanalytic approach to The Second Sex.

10. It was translated into sixteen languages: Francis and Gontier, Op. cit., page 254.

11. Bair, Op. cit., pages 432–433.

12. Ibid., page 438.

13. Brendan Gill, ‘No More Eve’, New Yorker, volume XXIX, Number 2, February 28, 1953, pages 97–99, quoted in Bair, Op. cit., page 439.

14. Bair, Op. cit., page 432.

15. He saw himself as ‘a second Darwin’: James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, New York: W. W. Norton, 1997, pages 25ff.

16. John Heidenry, What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997, page 21.

17. John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, New York: Harper & Row, 1988, page 285.

18. Ibid., page 285.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid., page 286.

21. Ibid.

22. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 21.

23. Jones, Op. cit., pages 690–691; see also: D’Emilio and Freedman, Op. cit., page 286.

24. Jones, Op. cit., page 695.

25. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 21.

26. D’Emilio and Freedman, Op. cit., page 288.

27. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 23.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid., pages 24–25.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid., page 26.

32. D’Emilio and Freedman, Op. cit., pages 268 and 312. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 28.

33. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 29.

34. Ibid., page 33.

35. Ibid.

36. Audrey Leathard, The Fight for Family Planning, London: Macmillan, 1980, page 72.

37. Ibid., page 87.

38. Ibid., page 84.

39. Heidenry, Op cit., page 31.

40. Leathard, Op cit., page 114, on Rock’s philosophy.

41. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 31.

42. Leathard, Op. cit., page 104. Heidenry, Op. cit., page 31.

43. Heidenry, Op. cit., pages 31–32.

44. Ibid, page 32.

45. Leathard, Op. cit., page 105.

46. He originally wanted to publish the book anonymously, to protect his position at Cornell University, where he was a fall professor, but Farrar, Straus & Giroux, the publishers, felt this undermined their defence of the book as literature. This account has been disputed. See: Andrew Field, VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov, London: Macdonald/Queen Anne Press, 1987, pages 299–300.

47. Ibid., pages 324–325 for VN’s rejection of psychoanalytic interpretations of his work.

48. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan: The Making of the Feminine Mystique, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, page 193.

49. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, New York: W. W. Norton, 1963; reprinted by Dell Publishing, paperback, 1984, page 7.

50. See Horowitz, Op. cit., page 202 for other reactions.

51. Friedan, Op. cit., page 38.

52. Horowitz, Op. cit., pages 2–3.

53. Friedan, Op. cit., pages 145–146.

54. Ibid., page 16.

55. Ibid., page 383.

56. See also: Horowitz, Op. cit., pages 226–227.