Karen Vintges

To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important breakthroughs have been achieved by and for women in law, politics, and economics. Today, however, we witness movements in the opposite direction, such as a masculinist political revival in different parts of the world, the spread of the neoliberal myth of the Super Woman, the rise of transnational networks of trafficking in women and children, and a new international 'Jihadism'. This suggests that patriarchy is indeed a Hydra: a multi-headed monster that grows several new heads every time one head is cut off. Since different - often hybrid - heads of patriarchy dominate in different settings, feminism requires a variety of strategies. Women's movements all over the world today are critically creating new models of self and society in their own contexts. Drawing on notions of Beauvoir, as well as Michel Foucault, this book outlines a 'feminism in a new key' which consists of women's various freedom practices, each hunting the Hydra in their own key - but with mutual support.

Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective

A New Dawn for the Second Sex

Studie over het filosofische werk van de Franse schrijfster (1908-1986).

het denken van Simone de Beauvoir

Filosofie als passie

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir's independent, original ethics and philosophy, drawing on the moral philosophical treatises of the 1940's and 1950's along with The Second Sex, her novel The Mandarins, and autobiographical works.

The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy as Passion

Dianna Taylor

'Feminism and the Final Foucault' is a systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perpectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault.

Feminism and the Final Foucault

To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? Women's movements all over the world today are critically creating new models of self and society in their own contexts. Drawing on notions of Beauvoir, as well as Michel Foucault, this book outlines a "feminism in a new key " which consists of women's various freedom practices.

Karen Vintges

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