{"title":"On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient, by Manon Garcia","authors":"Esther Demoulin","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03002001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03002001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132530112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for Papers / Appel à contribution","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03002010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03002010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126205006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Introduction / Présentation du numéro","authors":"Jennifer McWeeny","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03002009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03002009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the Editor’s Introduction to volume 30 of Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and the first standard issue of the relaunched version of the journal, Jennifer McWeeny identifies two trends in Beauvoir’s scholarship that characterize the present state of the field: the emphasis on the situated, first-person perspective and the need for a holistic method of interpretation that attends to the underexplored or misrepresented moments in Beauvoir’s oeuvre. McWeeny also argues that the events of this year, 2020, have brought us in-sight and an existentialist perception similar to those that fueled Beauvoir’s political awakenings in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122073952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for Nominations / Appel à candidature","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03002012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03002012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124768074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Simone de Beauvoir Society","authors":"Editors Simone de Beauvoir Studies","doi":"10.1163/25897616-01801018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-01801018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126108074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Blood of Others","authors":"Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Jennifer McWeeny","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03001014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03001014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The author argues, with reference to a number of Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished manuscripts, that Merleau-Ponty’s notion of encroachment (empiétement) has origins in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel, The Blood of Others. He examines how the two philosophers approach the encroachment of freedoms, the political stance of pacifism, and the interpretation of Voltaire’s Candide (Part I). The impact of Élisabeth Lacoin’s death on Beauvoir’s and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies, as well as their relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, is also considered (Part II).","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129262449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Word from the President of the Society / Le mot de la Présidente de la Société","authors":"Tove Pettersen","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03001001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03001001","url":null,"abstract":"As the new President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society, I am happy to congratulate JenniferMcWeenyand the editors of the SimonedeBeauvoir Studies journal on this second volume of the journal’s relaunch and am grateful for the opportunity to greet its readership. As a Black feminist, I sometimes find that others meet my professional and intellectual affinity with Simone de Beauvoir with puzzlement. Indeed, many Black feminists and women of color feminists have had a long, rich history of critique of Beauvoir’s lack of attention towomen like us. In answer to this, I will tell a story. I hope you will bear with me as I share it here. I studied philosophy originally at Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college, under the tutelage of Al-Yasha Williams. There I was introduced to philosophy as a discipline of exploration and curiosity, one that engaged many traditions and genres—one, I only later realized, that was oriented toward liberation and anti-oppressive politics. When I decided to continue studying philosophy in graduate school, I was excited for the opportunity to further expand my worldview, to think, to understand. Although I had a caring, brilliant, and supportive oasis in Professor Lewis R. Gordon and made deep friendships with other students, I found most of graduate school to be stifling and discouraging. I came to understand that the projects I cared aboutweremarginal tomany and “not philosophical” to some. I struggled tomaintain a sense of purpose and connection tomy communities. I considered dropping out but then sadly realized that I had no othermarketable skills. I was asked to be a teaching assistant for one of Lewis’s undergraduate existentialism courses. One of the assigned texts was Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity. Prior to that, I had read only small excerpts of the H.M. Parshley translation of The Second Sex, about which I had no real feelings. But reading Ethics was a revelation. I hadn’t stayed up all night, energized by words on a page, since reading Immanuel Kant’sGroundwork for theMetaphysics of Morals in my freshman year of college. I felt a philosophical spark again. Something in embers was reignited. Ethics, in important ways, changed my life. Because I found in Beauvoir’s words an affirmation of and spirited engagement with my own concerns—","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121128361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appel à candidature / Call for Nominations","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03001012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03001012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133924982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions","authors":"M. Caze","doi":"10.1163/25897616-03001006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25897616-03001006","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Simone de Beauvoir Studies, “Dialogues avec Beauvoir/Beauvoir in Conversation,” brings reviews of three exciting new works in Beauvoir scholarship. They include a monograph on the importance of the concept of “submission” in The Second Sex, another book that demonstrates the potential of Beauvoir’s work to articulate international feminist practices, and an edited collection of diverse essays on Beauvoir’s most famous sentence, “On ne nâit pas femme: on le devient.” First, Esther Demoulin reviewsManon Garcia’s On ne nâit pas soumise: on le devient from 2018. This is Garcia’s first book, and it has made a serious international impact, with reviews in major French, Italian, and Belgian newspapers, while Garcia has taken a book tour in France and Belgium, and has given a series of interviews on French radio and television.1 The title is translated as “women aren’t born submissive” and the book provides a philosophical consideration of women’s ambivalence about their submission to men. Garcia’s view is that Beauvoir’s work makes it possible to reflect theoretically on women’s lived experience of submission as a willing acceptance of, or lack of resistance to, domination. The book shows how the analyses in The Second Sex are relevant to describing and explaining women’s everyday lives in the twenty-first century, as well as thinking about how they could be improved. In her review, Demoulin finds that Garcia demonstrates the productivity and relevance of Beauvoir’s thought to understanding contemporary debates such as that surrounding the #MeToo movement, and suggests how Garcia’s analysis could be extended through considering more of Beauvoir’s oeuvre. Our second review is Deniz Durmuş’s examination of Karen Vintges’s A New Dawn for “The Second Sex”: Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective, published in 2016. Vintges has previously published Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (1996) and Feminism and the Final Foucault (2004), a co-edited collection, both of which demonstrate interests that Dur-","PeriodicalId":114724,"journal":{"name":"Simone de Beauvoir Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127417678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}