Becoming a Woman

Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence

Megan Burke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2024
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6199-5 (ISBN)

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This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify trans-exclusionary positions. Through a careful examination and application of Beauvoir's philosophical and political commitments, Becoming a Woman compellingly explores the significance of her notion of becoming not only as affirmative of trans women, but also as an ethical demand to affirm trans possibilities.

More than a reply to gender-critical readings of Beauvoir, this book develops an original, Beauvoirian ethics of gender affirmation that shows why we ought to challenge trans exclusion and anti-trans movements.

Megan Burke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University and the author of When Time Warps.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Trans Antagonisms and Beauvoir

Chapter One: Becoming a Woman

Chapter Two: On Females and Women

Chapter Three: An Ethics of Gender Affirmation

Conclusion: Bad Faith and Feminism

Glossary

References

Erscheinungsdatum	28.11.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5095-6199-4 / 1509561994
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-6199-5 / 9781509561995
Zustand	Neuware