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Simone de Beauvoir, Les Bouches inutiles, edition with introduction

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Title: Simone de Beauvoir, Les Bouches inutiles, edition with introduction

Author, co-author: Leglu, Catherine

Abstract: Intended for students, an edition with introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's only produced play of 1945, which anticipates many of the key ideas of Le Deuxieme Sexe. Set in the late-medieval Low Countries, the play depicts a city forced to expel its non-fighting population : the women, children and the elderly. it explores inequality, and who is valued within a society.

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