We Are Not Born Submissive (eBook)

How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

Manon Garcia (Autor)

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2021
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21262-3 (ISBN)

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A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. In philosophy, even less has been said on why women submit to men and the discussion has been equally contradictory-submission has traditionally been considered a vice or pathology, but female submission has been valorized as innate to women's nature. Is there a way to explore female submission in all of its complexity-not denying its appeal in certain instances, and not buying into an antifeminist, sexist, or misogynistic perspective?We Are Not Born Submissive offers the first in-depth philosophical exploration of female submission, focusing on the thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, and more recent work in feminist philosophy, epistemology, and political theory. Manon Garcia argues that to comprehend female submission, we must invert how we examine power and see it from the woman's point of view. Historically, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and even some radical feminists have conflated femininity and submission. Garcia demonstrates that only through the lens of women's lived experiences-their economic, social, and political situations-and how women adapt their preferences to maintain their own well-being, can we understand the ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women's experiences. Ultimately, she asserts that women do not actively choose submission. Rather, they consent to-and sometimes take pleasure in-what is prescribed to them through social norms within a patriarchy.Moving beyond the simplistic binary of natural destiny or moral vice, We Are Not Born Submissive takes a sophisticated look at how female submissiveness can be explained.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Adoption • Alterity • Ambiguity • Anecdote • Annales School • #BalanceTonPorc • BalanceTonPorc • BDSM • being and nothingness • Career • Catherine Deneuve • Consciousness • consent • Cosmetics • Dasein • Dialectic • Disgust • Domestic violence • Dominance and Submission • Domination • Dominique Strauss-Kahn • Edmund Husserl • E. L. James • eroticism • essentialism • Everyday life • Existence • Existentialism • Explanation • facticity • Feeling • Female desire • female submission • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist philosophy • Fifty Shades of Grey • freedom • french feminism • French Philosophy • Gabriel Matzneff • Gender Inequality • Gender Studies • Harvey Weinstein • Heidegger • Housewife • Human female sexuality • hypothesis • Ideology • Immanence • immorality • Individualism • interpersonal relationship • Intersectionality • Jean-Paul Sartre • Judith Butler • Literature • lived body • mackinnon • male privilege • Martin Heidegger • Marxism • Masculinity • Master–slave dialectic • men’s gaze • #metoo • #MoiAussi • Monica Lewinsky • Morality • natural destiny • Norm (social) • Obedience (human behavior) • Objectification • obstacle • Omnipotence • Oppression • originality • Patriarchy • Perversion • Phenomenology • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical analysis • Philosophy • Political Philosophy • political theory • Pornography • Prejudice • Private Sphere • Prostitution • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • puberty • radical feminism • Raymond Aron • reason • romance novels • Sadomasochism • Sex and gender distinction • Sex differences in humans • Sexism • Sexual assault • sexual harassment • sexual objectification • Sigmund Freud • Simone de Beauvoir • Social constructionism • social issue • Social norms • Social reality • Social Science • Social Structure • Society • Sociology • Subaltern (postcolonialism) • Subjectivity • the body • The Ethics of Ambiguity • the gaze • theory • Theory of Forms • The Second Sex • The Story of O • Thought • To the Contrary • Understanding • Vagina • Vanessa Springora • Violence Against Women • Woman • womanhood • women’s studies
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21262-7 / 0691212627
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21262-3 / 9780691212623