718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes index Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-679)
Contents:
Introduction The family Bertrand de Beauvoir My sister, my accomplice When the trouble really started The girl with a man's brain The young writer Zaza Eighteen, and in love with love "A high-minded little bourgeois" The young girl who worked too much Castor On her Paris honeymoon Learning to be alone again Rouen Paris What will happen tomorrow? When life goes slightly adrift To stay and try to survive Socialism and liberty The promise of the future How to make a living Flinging oneself on the future Always something to say Moving in some sort of blur The most exotic thing A beautiful, corny love story The high priestess of existentialism The crocodile is the frog's destiny A book about women All the right enemies "Not exactly our story, but..." A $10 book by an unknown Frenchwoman When "the dream I dreamed" came true "The place that Goncourt bought" "My life...this curious object" Politics and feminism November was a long sad month The friendships of women "Something's going to happen" "We have lived through some exhilarating times" Women's battles Between dread and hope The last of the 1968 demonstrations Cleaning up loose ends "Women, you owe everything to her!"
