1. See Kristana Arp, `Beauvoir’s Concept of Bodily Alienation,“ in Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Margaret A. Simons ( University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995 ), 161–77.
2. The present English translation of The Second Sex constantly obscures Beauvoir’s connections to the phenomenological tradition. It has other problems as well. See Margaret A. Simons, “The Silencing of Simone de Beauvoir: Guess What’s Missing From The Second Sex,” Women’s Studies International Forum 6, no. 5 (1983): 559–64.
3. present the case for this in Kristana Arp, The Bonds of Freedom: The Existentialist Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir (forthcoming).
4. Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity,trans. Bernard Frechtman (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991). Henceforth referred to as EA.
5. See Simone de Beauvoir, Force of Circumstance, trans. Richard Howard (New York: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1964 ), 94.