by Julia This evening, the French Embassy in Washington, DC, along with L’Alliance Française, hosted an event honoring the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s watershed feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex. The appearance of the translators, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, drew an incredibly well-dressed crowd. On the first real fall evening in DC (finally!!), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Simone de Beauvoir’
Demythifying The Second Sex
Posted in Books, tagged constance borde, dc, feminine, feminism, feminist, femme, french, gender, howard m. parshley, Jean-Paul Sartre, other, production, reproduction, semicolon, sheila malovany-chevallier, Simone de Beauvoir, the second sex, translation, women on 09/11/2010 | 1 Comment »
Subjectivity and Objectivity, via Lady Gaga
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20s, abstraction, alejandro, autonomy, being and nothingness, choice, dialectic, divide, equality, feminism, feminist, gaga, generation, graduation, Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, lady gaga, Lady Power, law school, liberation, Nancy Bauer, new york times, ny times, object, objectivity, philosophy, postmodern, power, restructure, Sartre, second wave, sexuality, Simone de Beauvoir, struggle, subject, subjectivity, The Stone, young women, youth on 06/21/2010 | 1 Comment »
by Julia I’ve been dealing a lot this summer with a not-uncommon state of conflict within myself (and with my elders) since graduation from college. A lot of me feels like the woman I write about on my résumé – a woman with a fabulously enriching college experience (in an academic and social sense) who [...]
Simone de Beauvoir Talks the Talk
Posted in Books, tagged A Dangerous Liaison, Carole Seymour-Jones, feminism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mai 68, marxism, misogyny, mongamy, Paris, patriarchy, polyamory, praxis, privilege, relationships, Simone de Beauvoir, theory on 01/03/2010 | 7 Comments »
by Julia I spent the first week of winter break devouring Carole Seymour-Jones’s A Dangerous Liaison, a “revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.” I ordered this book in September, but wanted the time to fully devote to its 540+ pages. Relative isolation in south Florida with my parents, iPod, and beach [...]
