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...females at the party are some of the most interesting and accomplished in the nation, but their male guests aren’t interesting in hearing their SAT scores or their term papers on Simone de Beauvoir. For these four hours, the party hostesses are not viewed as women or girls, but rather as objects. The students know...
...bound to lose. Without modesty, there is no romance—it isn’t so attractive or so erotic,” said the professor. Tracing the roots of “radical feminism” to the writings of the 20th-century French writer Simon De Beauvoir, Mansfield argued that the questions and confusion facing feminists arise from their attempt at achieving “autonomy” and asserting that “men and women have no distinct nature.” Mansfield appeared most comfortable when answering questions from the audience. He emphasized...
Gullette is something of a one-woman social movement, working in the tradition of Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir to raise awareness of the negative effects of modern culture, specifically its attitudes toward aging. Her previous books, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife and Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel, both focus on popular misconceptions of aging...
Gynesis was so monumental in part because the people about whom Jardine was writing—Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir and other prominent feminist thinkers—were Jardine’s peers during her years doing graduate work in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship...
Both Mina and Lisa attended Beauvoir Elementary School and co-captained the women’s ice hockey team at National Cathedral...