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Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir`s views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her theory of women`s ``otherness`` in the context of a number of contemporary theories on a similar subject. While gender takes its place among these, Professor Deutscher counterbalances its grip on our memory of Beauvoir`s ideas by situating it in the context of our relationship to ageing, to generational difference, and to race and cultural difference. By differentiating the many aspects of ``otherness,`` Beauvoir revisited some of the concepts of reciprocity, ambiguity, and ethics for which she is best remembered.
