GNSE 15002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone Weil, Incest Taboo

• School: University of Chicago
• Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Course: GNSE 15002
• Professor: Rochona Majumdar

Document Summary

A significant time period separates the de beauvoir and scott readings. For example the ideas of transgender at the time joan scott was writing had not reached the public or the academy. One can not talk about gender without provoking other concepts. Simone de beauvoir"s greatest contemporary was john paul sartre, and she can be read as an existentialist- a philosophy which to an extent takes existence itself as a means in itself (like simone. As a class analyzation she criticizes the existence between bourgeois women and bourgeois men. The silent backdrop of wwii and the immediate postwar period. (women were the majority of the population). Every received wisdom of how to be was up in the air. For de beauvoir, and later in the class this question will be asked. This text by bringing in references to jews and blacks is a highly political text situated in its time. The concept of other, and its antonym, same, self.