Simone De Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Qrescent Mali Mason: Uses of Ambiguity. A Black Feminist Phenomenologist Reflects on Ambiguities in the Year 2020
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This talk focuses on the ambiguous dimensions of the year 2020 from the standpoint of a Black American feminist philosopher. Inheriting the exis...
Ana Maskalan: "I Didn't Ask for It". Women of Former Yugoslavia Vs. The Invisibility of Rape
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Online initiative "I Didn't Ask for It" (#nisamtrazila) started in January 2021 in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia, ...
Catherine Raissiguier: Beauvoir, Bardot, and Burqinis. Making Sense of Modern France
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1959, Simone de Beauvoir wrote a little-read essay on Brigitte Bardot, describing her as the new myth of feminity that troubles French notions of w...
Sonia Kruks: Old Age and Intersectionality — Beauvoir and Beyond
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
La Vieillesse (1970) is Beauvoir's groundbreaking work on old age, in which she describes the silencing that befalls the old. This oppressive silence ...
Mickaëlle Provost: A Transatlantic Existentialism — Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright and the Phenomenology of Racial Oppression
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Wright embody what we could call, alluding to Paul Gilroy, 'Transatlantic Existentialism': they contributed to the circ...
Dana F. Miranda: Repossession — The Ambiguity of Decolonization
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In decolonial struggles for independence, there is a constant effort to combat unfreedom at multiple levels, including the internal transformations th...
Adam Kjellgren: Beauvoir the Mythmaker
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Simone de Beauvoir is often portrayed as a sworn enemy of myth because of her critical discussion of the myth of feminity in The Second Sex. Yet, in t...
Filipa Melo Lopes: What do incels want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, incel violence has moved from obscure corners of the internet onto mainstream news. In this episode, Filipa Melo Lopes discusses why ...
Dianna Taylor: Counter-violence — A Beauvoirian Response to Sexual Violence?
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dianna Taylor argues in favour of feminist counter-violence as responses to the sexual violence that both underpins and is reproduced...
Heli Mahkonen: Love: Patriarchal oppression or emancipatory potential? Aspects of feminist love critique
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode, Heli Mahkonen elaborates on a key aspect of Beauvoir's Second Sex, namely her critique of romantic love. How does that classic...
Jennifer McWeeny (with Tessel Veneboer): How Does Your Mind Grasp Your Body?
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, Jennifer McWeeny elaborates on an important yet frequently mistranslated distinction found in Le Deuxième Sexe between saisir,...