Love and Annihilation: Beauvoir on the Future of Romantic Love

dc.contributor.advisor	Enns, Diane	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Theriault, Alanda D.	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Philosophy	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T16:51:58Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T16:51:58Z
dc.date.created	2011-08-02	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-09	en_US
dc.description.abstract	<p>My thesis contributes to the general area of scholarship that examines the intersection of contemporary radical feminist theory with our dominant ideologies of romantic love. To this end, the philosophical work of 20<sup>th</sup> century novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir informs my critical feminist perspective that love is for women the "dream of annihilation". I argue that while our dominant ideologies of romantic love are far from being an ideal forum for the maintenance and development of women's existential subjectivity, these ideologies can indeed be reconceived in a way that allow women to love in their strength and not in their weakness.</p>	en_US
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (MA)	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/5647	en_US
dc.identifier.other	6670	en_US
dc.identifier.other	2127669	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10612
dc.subject	Philosophy	en_US
dc.subject	Philosophy	en_US
dc.title	Love and Annihilation: Beauvoir on the Future of Romantic Love	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US

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