1st Edition
A New Dawn for the Second Sex Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective
By Karen Vintges
Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction, 1. Women's Freedom Practices, 2. Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective, 3. Muslim Women's Freedom Practices, 4. The Battle of Myths, 5. Feminism in a New Key
Biography
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.
