Sartre and Beauvoir on women's psychological oppression

Edwards, Mary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-9758 2021. Sartre and Beauvoir on women's psychological oppression. Sartre Studies International 27 (1) , 46. 10.3167/ssi.2021.270104

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Abstract

This paper aims to show that Sartre's later work represents a valuable resource for feminist scholarship that remains relatively untapped. It analyses Sartre's discussions of women's attitude towards their situation from the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s, alongside Beauvoir's account of women's situation in The Second Sex, to trace the development of Sartre's thought on the structure of gendered experience. It argues that Sartre transitions from reducing psychological oppression to self-deception in Being and Nothingness to construing women as ‘survivors’ of it in The Family Idiot. Then, it underlines the potential for Sartre's mature existentialism to contribute to current debates in feminist philosophy by illuminating the role of the imagination in women's psychological oppression.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Berghahn Journals
ISSN:	1357-1559
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 September 2023
Date of Acceptance:	25 March 2021
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2024 05:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161725

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