TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coffin,Judith G.
TI  - Sex, love, and letters: writing Simone de Beauvoir 
SN  - 9781501750540
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Beauvoir, Simone de,
KW  - Authors, French
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - France
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Intimate Life of the Nation -- Beauvoir, Kinsey, and Mid-Century Sex -- Readers and Writers -- The Algerian War and the Scandal of Torture, 1954-1960 -- Shame as Political Feeling, 1954-1963 -- Second Takes on The Second Sex -- Couple Troubles -- Sexual Politics and Feminism
N2  - "An unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from ordinary women and men around the world opens onto an unexpectedly intimate history of postwar France and the world, offering a riveting close-up of the kind of author-reader relationship that is so important to the history of ideas" --
ER  -