Bodies and Sexualities in Beauvoir's Thought

For this last session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023, we are hosting Sylvie Chaperon and Emily Anne Parker. Their conversation on Beauvoir's account of bodies and sexualities will be moderated by Katja Čičigoj.

Content of the session: 

1- Conversation: Sylvie Chaperon, Emily Anne Parker and Katja Čičigo 

2 - 20 minutes Q/A


About the participants: 

Sylvie Chaperon is a Professor of Gender history at the university of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Her research interests include Beauvoir, sexology, feminism and sexualities. She recently co-published a book on clitoris: Idées sur le clitoris. Anatomie politique et historique d'un organe méconnu (2022).Her article, "Outcry over the Second Sex" is is one of the first studies of the French reception of the Beauvoir's book. It was translated into English and published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies 32(1). 

Emily Anne Parker is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Towson University. She specializes in Contemporary French Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and Theory, Environmental Philosophy, and Social and Political Philosophy. She is the author of Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body (2021) and co-editor of Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray (2017). She is currently editing and introducing along with several other scholars a new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity. 

Katja Čičigoj is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Klagenfurt/Celovec University, and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Paderborn University. She has published on Simone de Beauvoir, Deleuze and Guattari, feminist materialisms, and Shulamith Firestone. She has translated Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex into Slovene (2019) and is currently editing a volume on feminist utopias of care and reproduction (out in 2023) and co-editing a special issue of Feminist Encounters on feminist techno-imaginaries (out in 2025).