Simone De Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century

The French activist, novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) is more popular than ever. In this podcast, we ask how her political commitments have shaped her writing as well as her public interventions: existentialism, Marxism, anti-colonialism and, finally feminism. This podcast, starting from Beauvoir’s social and political engagement, asks to what extent De Beauvoir provides important tools for diagnosing the present and offering a prognosis for the future. Her life and work provide a toolkit offering both a conceptual apparatus as practical examples of acts of resistance.

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Dianna Taylor: Counter-violence — A Beauvoirian Response to Sexual Violence?

In this episode, Dianna Taylor argues in favour of feminist counter-violence as responses to the sexual violence that both underpins and is reproduced by gender oppression. Beauvoir provides a concept...

17 Feb 202247min

Heli Mahkonen: Love: Patriarchal oppression or emancipatory potential? Aspects of feminist love critique

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, feminist critique relate to Black feminist thoug...

14 Feb 202237min

Jennifer McWeeny (with Tessel Veneboer): How Does Your Mind Grasp Your Body?

In this first episode, Jennifer McWeeny elaborates on an important yet frequently mistranslated distinction found in Le Deuxième Sexe between saisir, se faire objetand se faire femme. Attending to the...

30 Sep 20211h 14min