Beauvoir and politics : a toolkit /

Approaching Simone de Beauvoir's feminism and social commentary as a toolkit to understand our current crises, Simone de Beauvoir: Toolkit for the 21st Century brings together established and emerging scholars to apply her insights to gender studies, political philosophy, decolonization, intell...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schoonheim, Liesbeth (Editor), Vintges, Karen (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Situating Simone de Beauvoir in contemporary political theory / Liesbeth Schoonheim
  • Incel violence and Beauvoirian otherness / Filipa Melo Lopes
  • Must we eliminate all myths? Simone de Beauvoir and the myth- affirmative feminist tradition / Adam Kjellgren
  • Beauvoir, Bardot, and Burqinis : making sense of modern day France / Catherine Raissiguier
  • Uses of ambiguity as tool : a Black feminist phenomenologist reflects on the year 2020 (and ambiguous futures) / Qrescent Mali Mason
  • Beauvoir, the philosophy of freedom, and the rights of Black women during French colonial times / Nathalie Nya
  • Old age and the question of authenticity / Sonia Kruks
  • Expectant anxiety in The second sex / Kate Kirkpatrick
  • 'Muscular revolt' : resisting gender oppression through counter- violence / Dianna Taylor
  • 'I didn't ask for it.' Women of former Yugoslavia vs. the invisibility of rape / Ana Maskalan
  • Why thoughtfulness matters : Black Lives Matter and elsewhere / Elaine Stavro.