Emancipatory thinking Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political thought

"Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir's fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir's political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stavro, Elaine, 1952- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press 2018
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 75
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Feminism and epistemology : debunking male epistemic privilege
  • Rethinking the sex/gender distinction
  • Beauvoir reconfigures social subjectivity in the wake of psychoanalysis
  • Beauvoir's political thinking : the entwining of existentialism and Marxism
  • Broadening emancipatory struggles : encounters with social movements, revolutionary regimes, and the media
  • Rethinking the role of the critical intellectual : liberating or colonizing?
  • Fictions of politics : affect, idea, and engagement.