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Theoretical / Feminist Theory

Re-reading the Second Sex: Theorizing the Situation

Abstract This article challenges traditional readings that view Beauvoir as an appendage to Sartre's philosophy, arguing that she developed a distinctive theory of situation in The Second Sex that transcends Sartre's abstract concept of freedom. Stavro demonstrates how Beauvoir employs existentialist categories to analyze women's material, economic, cultural, and psychological conditions, thereby creating a theory of embodied, contextually sensitive subjectivity. This re-reading reveals Beauvoir's status as an independent philosopher and her enduring contributions to contemporary feminist theory.

Elaine Stavro / Read paper

1980 / Theoretical

Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality

Iris Marion Young

Human Studies