In diverse bijdragen wordt vanuit feministisch perspectief ingegaan op het leven, het werk en de theorieën van Simone de Beauvoir. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Feminists read 'The second sex' / Jo-Ann Pilardi: 'The second sex' and philosophy / Karen Vintges: Simone de Beauvoir: falling into (ambigious) line / Michèle le Doeuff: Can a woman be a philosopher?: reflections of a Beauvoirian housemaid / Eleanore Holveck: Simone de Beauvoir: teaching Sartre about freedom / Sonia Kruks: Sartre's secret key / Kate Fullbrook and Edward Fullbrook: A response to a letter from Peg Simons, December 1993 / Jeffner Allen: Beauvoir's woman: eunuch or male? / Céline T. Léon: Beauvoir's concept of bodily alienation / Kristana Arp: Out from under: Beauvoir's philosophy of the erotic / Debra B. Bergoffen: Sexuality in Beauvoir's 'Les Mandarins' / Barbara Klaw: Beauvoir's two senses of 'body' in 'The second sex' / Julie K. Ward: 'The second sex': from Marxism to radical feminism / Margaret A. Simons: Beauvoir and the Algerian war: toward a postcolonial ethics / Julien Murphy