Rereading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age

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  • Kathleen Woodward University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130161

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Published

2018-01-01

How to Cite

Woodward, K. “Rereading Simone De Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age”. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 3, Jan. 2018, pp. 191-06, doi:10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130161.