Session 3: Beauvoir In time, by Meryl Altman

[La session est en anglais mais les sous-titres français peuvent être activés sur Youtube]

The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the third session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series. 

ABOUT THE BOOK: 
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today. (from editor)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 
Meryl Altman studied Literature at Swarthmore and Columbia (Ph.D. 1988) and taught at DePauw University in Indiana. She has published on modernist American poetry and fiction, the history of sexuality, Sappho and classical reception, migrant domestic labor, and Beauvoir. Meryl is a long-time member of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society. She is Secretary-Treasurer of the Society.

THE SESSION: 
Meryl Altman will discuss her book with two special guests. 
- Dr Sonia Kruks is a political philosopher currently at Durham University (UK). She is best known for her scholarly work on the political and social ideas of the French existentialists. She has also published extensively on feminist theory. She is a long-time specialist of Simone de Beauvoir and has published groundbreaking books and articles on Beauvoir. 
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-  Dr Judith G. Coffin is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Austin, Texas. She recently published a groundbreaking book on Beauvoir and her readers. She is a specialist of women and gender history.