Lived accounts of #MeToo and slanting towards Beauvoir

Patricia Moynagh

Chapter 10 in Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, 2024, pp 218-249 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter draws upon Simone de Beauvoir’s political thought to demonstrate how #MeToo provides a step towards ending sexual oppression. It suggests that Beauvoir’s key concepts—especially freedom and ambiguity and situation and singularity—can enrich an accounting of #MeToo and its future possibilities. Further engagement with Beauvoir’s work today might produce more innovations in regard to breaking silences and opposing oppression, sexual assaults high among them. While engaging a host of feminist political thinkers, the chapter is an ultimate call for how best to achieve sexual justice and sexual freedom. It maintains that just as Beauvoir’s writing public answered her call to break silences in her own times, today’s #MeToo movement is slanting towards Beauvoir and speaking up.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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