SOURCE: "Before We Said 'We' (and after): Bad Sex and Personal Politics in Doris Lessing and Simone de Beauvoir," in Critical Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, Autumn, 1996, pp. 14-29.
In the following essay, Altman assesses the unresolved sexual conflicts portrayed in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins.
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