Overview
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.
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Author: Karen Vintges
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
ISBN: 9789089646026
ISBN 10: 9089646027
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 02 January 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
- [Karen Vintges's] book interacts in a very innovative way with the thinking of Simone Beauvoir and Michel Foucault ... Her book certainly provides her readers with profound and relevant issues for the present era, especially for the refinement of the d
- This is a pioneering and audacious book about a topic that is lived and thought worldwide. - Siep Stuurman in World History, Harvard University Press, 2017.[-][-] [-][-]- De auteur slaagt erin om abstracte begrippen, filosofische pr
- This is a pioneering and audacious book about a topic that is lived and thought worldwide. - Siep Stuurman / author of The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History, Harvard University Press, 2017.[-][-] <
Author Information
Karen Vintges teaches Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. She has published inter alia Philosophy as Passion. The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 [originally in Dutch, 1992]); Feminism and the Final Foucault, ed. by D. Taylor & K.Vintges (Illinois University Press, 2004), and several other books in Dutch.
