Members of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society receive free print and digital subscriptions to Simone de Beauvoir Studies. One year of membership equals a subscription to one volume of the journal (two issues). If you would like to renew your membership, have not yet received print issues from volumes 30, 31, or 32 that you should have received, or are have questions about accessing your digital subscription, please contact the Society’s secretary-treasurer, Meryl Altman ([email protected]). Information about membership can also be found on the Society’s website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html.
The Society’s journal has just published a new issue – a special issue on the theme of masculinities! More here.
Members of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society receive free print and digital subscriptions to Simone de Beauvoir Studies. One year of membership equals a subscription to one volume of the journal (two issues). If you would like to renew your membership, have not yet received print issues from volumes 30, 31, or 32 that you should have received, or are have questions about accessing your digital subscription, please contact the Society’s secretary-treasurer, Meryl Altman ([email protected]). Information about membership can also be found on the Society’s website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html.
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From the editor: "Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty-first century. In Ambiguous Cinema, Fuery examines Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers, including Joanna Hogg, Liliana Cavani, Debra Granik, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ramsay and Céline Sciamma. In doing so, Fuery deftly demonstrates the currency and relevancy of Beauvoir’s ideas to contemporary debates in film-philosophy and feminist thought by examining how these women filmmakers navigate turbulent themes such as moral choice, power, adolescence, love, trauma and motherhood. Reimagining Beauvoir’s idea of ambiguity within the context of film studies, Fuery asks that we confront and embrace difficult emotional situations so that we might realise an authentic, if indeterminate, freedom through our cinematic experiences." We are pleased to share the new fascinating and necessary essay by two of our members, Kate Kirkpatrick and Sonia Kruks.
"Old age is not exactly a time of life that most of us welcome, although globally speaking it is a privilege to reach it. In Western societies, the shocked realisation that we are growing old often fills us with alarm and even terror. As Simone de Beauvoir writes in her magisterial study of the topic, La vieillesse (1970) – translated in the UK as Old Age, and in the US as The Coming of Age (1972) – old age arouses a visceral aversion, often a ‘biological repugnance’. Many attempt to push it as far away as possible, denying that it will ever happen, even though we know it already dwells within us...." Read more on Aeon. "La publication d’une partie des actes du forum Penser avec Simone de Beauvoir aujourd’hui, dans les Cahiers Sens Public,arrive à point nommé puisque, depuis 2018, nous sommes entré·es dans une dynamique de commémorations non seulement autour de Simone de Beauvoir (110 ans de sa naissance en 2018, 70 ans du Deuxième Sexe en 2019) mais aussi autour du MLF dont nous célébrons en 2020 les 50 ans. Les deux volumes que publient les Cahiers Sens Public, intitulés « Avec Simone de Beauvoir », ne doivent pas se lire seulement comme un nouvel hommage/femmage à la figure beauvoirienne mais plutôt comme une invitation à (re)penser l’articulation de deux champs : celui des études beauvoiriennes et celui des études sur la deuxième vague féministe." Par Marine Rouch. Lire la suite.
Just published by our member Deniz Durmuş! Read the article.
La figure de Zaza, surnom d’Élisabeth Lacoin, amie de cœur de Simone de Beauvoir, est essentielle dans le fil narratif et dramatique des Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée (1958) de Beauvoir. Son destin tragique est analysé ultérieurement par l’autrice de manière multiple, mais dans l’ouvrage de 1958 nous assistons à sa marche vers la mort, sans explications de la part de la narratrice, à savoir Beauvoir elle-même.
Lire la suite "Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of Covid-19", by Sonia Kruks3/22/2022 Sonia Kruks' article "Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of Covid-19," has just been published in Hypatia. This is a very interesting piece!
"This short article is a supplement to the conference I gave at the Simone de Beauvoir Society’s Webinar “On Inseparables”, in early January 2021. Then, I tried to give as much space as I possibly could to what I called a “truth-analysis” of Les Inséparables: an analysis that focuses on the way the narrative is structured by the movement of “truth”. Presently, my aim is, while reinterring some elements of this analysis, to share the basic groundwork of my current research on truth-telling in Beauvoir’s oeuvre." To Read the article by Francis Walsh.
"Sartre et Beauvoir ont vécu, pensé, écrit ensemble durant de longues années : leurs deux œuvres, dotées chacune d’une parfaite autonomie – on ne peut parler d’écriture à quatre mains dans leur cas –, n’en sont pas moins profondément liées. Les études réunies dans ce numéro illustrent cette autonomie en s’attachant à présenter avec rigueur la genèse de quelques textes romanesques ou autobiographiques, tout en questionnant la genèse croisée de leurs œuvres, dont peu de traces subsistent, mais qui demeure décisive pour saisir la singularité de ce couple d’écrivains."
Sommaire ICI "Le goût de Simone de Beauvoir pour les voyages est bien connu, l’ensemble de ses biographes l’évoque. Cependant, les études de fond sur ce sujet sont rares. Ce collectif entend contribuer à la diffusion d’une relecture de l’existence et de l’œuvre beauvoiriennes, à travers une approche centrée sur les (récits de) voyages. Ceux-ci sont des vecteurs de notre rapport au monde et de nos échanges avec nos contemporaines et contemporains."
Dossier coordonné par Tiphaine Martin. Contributions de Barbara Klaw, Björn Larsson et Tiphaine Martin. En ligne ICI. |
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