de Beauvoir (Simone) Archives

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The Importance of Losing ‘Virginity’

July 5, 2016 • by Kayla Heisler

I first questioned the concept of virginity’s validity when I was eighteen. I had just watched a Laci Green video entitled ‘Let’s Lose Virginity,’ and it depicted ‘virginity’ as a harmful myth created to oppress women. Reading Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex,’ a text that demonstrates why the myth ...

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Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

June 6, 2016 • by Tiago Lima

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Despite their differences, various authors of feminist theory have been mobilized by a similar question regarding the subject of feminism -- more precisely, what kind of theory of the subject is most productive for the feminist debate? Ever since ...

Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

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Psychoanalysis’ Reductio Ad Sex, Beauvior’s Better Critique

March 29, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. In the chapter of The Second Sex entitled “The Psychoanalytic Point of View,” Simone De Beauvoir ends her exploration of the way in which traditional psychoanalysis treats ideas of womanhood and femininity with a critique of the discipline as ...

Psychoanalysis’ Reductio Ad Sex, Beauvior’s Better Critique

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Are Female Characters Impossible?

March 16, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. She is the Giddiness of Loss, the Fascination of Damnation, of Death Euripides’ Alcestis offers a unique exemplification of the themes and arguments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Admetus’ elderly parents fail to step up and die for their son, ...

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Feminism, Marxism and Social Transformation: Beyond Economic Monism

March 2, 2015 • by Derek Baron

Friedrich Engels’ Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) has been a central text for Marxist-feminist thinkers in the 20th century and up until the present. But its centrality is not marked by a universal acceptance or agreement with the central tenets of Engels’ elaboration of Lewis ...