ボーヴォワールと政治：ツールキット Beauvoir and Politics : A Toolkit

著者名：Schoonheim, Liesbeth (EDT)/Vintges, Karen (EDT)

Routledge（2023/10/30発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032431918
• eISBN：9781000953442

Description

Approaching Simone de Beauvoir’s feminism and social commentary as a resource to understand our current crises, Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit brings together established and emerging scholars to apply her insights to gender studies, political philosophy, decolonisation, intellectual history, age theory, and critical phenomenology. The essays in this collection start from key concepts in Beauvoir’s oeuvre and relate them to contemporary debates, asking how her notion of ambiguity speaks to lived experiences that have been highly politicized in recent years, such as pregnancy, old age, sexual violence, and the exposure of black and brown bodies to police violence; how myths inform our notions of collective, national identities, as well as notions of masculinity and femininity; and how she provides conceptual tools that help to theorize the various political strategies that are used to challenge gendered and racialized systems of oppression. These and other issues are central to this critical appraisal of Beauvoir’s legacy, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of her thought as it diagnoses the present and looks toward change for a better future. This book will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students looking to engage with the political content of Simone de Beauvoir’s work and the timely application of her ideas.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors 

 

Liesbeth Schoonheim, Karen Vintges, “Introduction” 

 

1. Liesbeth Schoonheim, “Situating Simone de Beauvoir in Contemporary Political Theory” 

 

Part I: Changing Myths 

2. Filipa Melo Lopes, “Incel Violence and Beauvoirian Otherness” 

3. Adam Kjellgren, “Must We Eliminate All Myths? Simone de Beauvoir and the Myth-Affirmative Feminist Tradition” 

4. Catherine Raissiguier, “Beauvoir, Bardot, and Burqinis: Making Sense of Modern France” 

 

Part II: Lived Ambiguities  

5. Qrescent Mali Mason: “Uses of Ambiguity as Tool: A Black Feminist Phenomenologist Reflects on the Year 2020 (and Ambiguous Futures)” 

6. Nathalie Nya, “Beauvoir, the Philosophy of Freedom, and the Rights of Black Women during French Colonial Times”  

 

Part III: Situated Experiences 

7. Sonia Kruks, “Old Age and the Question of Authenticity”  

8. Kate Kirkpatrick, “Expectant Anxiety in The Second Sex”  

 

Part IV: Fighting Back 

9. Dianna Taylor, ‘Muscular Revolt’: Resisting Gender Oppression through Counter-Violence” 

10. Ana Maskalan, “'I Didn't Ask for It.': Balkan Women vs. the Invisibility of Rape” 

11. Elaine Stavro, “Why Thoughtfulness Matters: Black Lives Matter and Elsewhere” 

 

Index