Woman — Nature, Product, Style? Rethinking the Foundations of Feminist Philosophy of Science

Heinämaa, Sara

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“…More specifically, Heinämaa argues that Beauvoir understands womanhood much like Merleau‐Ponty understands sexuality: “as a kind of intentionality that structures all activities in the same way as an atmosphere or mood shades the world” (Heinämaa , 301). Such a phenomenological reading, Heinämaa claims, shows that “becoming” is not an achievement that produces a particular kind of body, but refers to a particular way of assuming one's embodied existence.…”

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“…However, Heinämaa also accounts for “woman” as realized and altered in repetition and as sedimentation of earlier intentional acts, suggesting that former embodied actions open up and provoke future actions (Heinämaa ; ; ; ). Yet, in contrast to Butler, Heinämaa argues that repetition and sedimentation refer to a temporal unfolding of the living body.…”

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“…Heinämaa argues that the sex/gender distinction is not present in Beauvoir's work such that becoming cannot and does not indicate, as Butler thinks, a temporal process of social acquisition. Rather, Heinämaa suggests that “becoming” “is not a collection of actions, but a way of acting” (Heinämaa , 301). As such, becoming a woman is a particular mode of assuming a world.…”

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“…In what follows, I first draw attention to the readings of Beauvoir's notion of becoming given by Butler and Heinämaa (Butler ; ; ; Heinämaa ; ; ). I underscore their respective interpretations of becoming as a temporal process, which accounts for gender as in time .…”

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Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Burke¹

2018

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This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of "becoming" as the main claim about the relation between "woman" and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passive present, to be an underlying structure of women's existence and subordination. Accordingly, I argue that Beauvoir does not see "woman" as a mere becoming, as that which unfolds in time, but instead understands becoming a woman to be realized as lived time. As such, Beauvoir's account shows that gender and temporality are deeply entangled, and thus she challenges the classic phenomenological account of temporality as a general, given structure of human existence. More specifically, I argue that her account shows how a particular experience of time is an underlying structure of sexual objectification, a claim that expands on the feminist phenomenological claim that a particular relation to space becomes a way in which women take up and negotiate their own subordination and objectification.In this essay, I show that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers a feminist phenomenology of temporality. I argue that by paying attention to temporality as a central theme in Beauvoir's descriptive account of becoming a woman, we see that gender and temporality are co-constitutive phenomena.

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2018

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“…This means that Beauvoir does have a different concept of freedom, situation and autonomy than the early Sartre—she does not accept the idea of an absolute freedom or a self‐transparent cogito . She was in many respects closer to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty than to Sartre (Kruks 1990; Heinämaa 1996).…”

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Simone de Beauvoir's Notions of Appeal, Desire, and Ambiguity and their Relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre's Notions of Appeal and Desire

Gothlin¹

1999

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This essay focuses on some important concepts in Beauvoir's philosophy: ambiguity, desire, and appeal (appel). Ambiguity and appeal, concepts originating in Beauvoir's moral philosophy, are in The Second Sex connected to the female body and feminine desire. This indicates the complexity of Beauvoir's image of femininity. This essay also proposes a comparative reading of Beauvoir's and Sartre's concepts of appeal, a reading that indicates differences in their views of the relationship among ethics, desire, and gender.

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Beauvoir, Simone de (1908–1986)

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Woman — Nature, Product, Style? Rethinking the Foundations of Feminist Philosophy of Science

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Simone de Beauvoir's Notions of Appeal, Desire, and Ambiguity and their Relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre's Notions of Appeal and Desire

Beauvoir, Simone de (1908–1986)

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