Sartre's critique of patriarchy

Webber, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0529-5349 2024. Sartre's critique of patriarchy. French Studies 78 (1) , pp. 72-88. 10.1093/fs/knad237

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Abstract

Jean-Paul Sartre developed a sophisticated and insightful feminist critique of western society through two plays and two screenplays written between 1944 and 1946 –– Huis clos, Les Jeux sont faits, Typhus, and La Putain respectueuse. In these works, Sartre explores the relations between economic oppression, epistemic injustice, and misogynistic violence, diagnoses their root cause as the patriarchal norms of femininity and masculinity, and ascribes the power of those norms to bad faith and internalized oppression. This social critique, which includes a racial dimension, informs some of his subsequent fictional and philosophical writings. Sartre’s analysis of patriarchy has not been noted in writings about these famous dramatic works, a distortion which seems partly due to those same patriarchal norms.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0016-1128
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 April 2022
Date of Acceptance:	23 March 2022
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2024 16:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149031

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