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The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the 2nd session the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2022! 
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February 21, 2022
1:30pm (LA) / 4:30pm (NYC) / 10:30pm (Paris) / 5:30am+1 (Manila)

We are delighted to welcome Manon Garcia (Yale University). She will discuss her book, *We are not born Submissive. How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives* (2021) with Ellie Anderson (Pomona College, CA, USA) and Filipa Melo Lopes (University of Edinburgh, UK). 

About the book (from Princeton University Press):

"What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. In philosophy, even less has been said on why women submit to men and the discussion has been equally contradictory—submission has traditionally been considered a vice or pathology, but female submission has been valorized as innate to women’s nature. Is there a way to explore female submission in all of its complexity—not denying its appeal in certain instances, and not buying into an antifeminist, sexist, or misogynistic perspective?
We Are Not Born Submissive offers the first in-depth philosophical exploration of female submission, focusing on the thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, and more recent work in feminist philosophy, epistemology, and political theory. Manon Garcia argues that to comprehend female submission, we must invert how we examine power and see it from the woman’s point of view. Historically, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and even some radical feminists have conflated femininity and submission. Garcia demonstrates that only through the lens of women’s lived experiences—their economic, social, and political situations—and how women adapt their preferences to maintain their own well-being, can we understand the ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women’s experiences. Ultimately, she asserts that women do not actively choose submission. Rather, they consent to—and sometimes take pleasure in—what is prescribed to them through social norms within a patriarchy.
Moving beyond the simplistic binary of natural destiny or moral vice, We Are Not Born Submissive takes a sophisticated look at how female submissiveness can be explained."

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Join us in this interesting discourse on Beauvoir and female submission! This is a free event and is open to the public. Please fill out and submit this form to complete your registration. https://forms.gle/pMzDg3NdopqT3eqt8
The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address the day before the event. 
The session will also be streamed on the Facebook page of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society: https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 and then posted on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSTeeTu4Ez05Ori4r2DSlQ
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Thank you.

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Our partners for this session are : 
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 
What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!

RECORDING HERE
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The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the 1st session the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2022! 
We are delighted to welcome Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir to talk about The Inseparables with Claudia Bouliane (University of Ottawa, Simone de Beauvoir Studies). Their conversation will be followed by a talk, "Zaza and Truth-Telling", by Francis Walsh (Sorbonne University, Simone de Beauvoir Studies).

THE INSEPARABLES (from Editor):
"The Inseparables (or Inseparables) is a new short novel by Simone de Beauvoir that evokes her great love of youth for her friend Zaza, whose tragic death caused by the prejudices and diktats of the society of the time, haunted her all her life. But beyond that, the novel depicts the sexual and intellectual education of two young girls who are « orderly » (rangées) and rebellious in a world that pretends to forbid them to become free and thinking women and instead confines them to the role of wife and mother at the service of society. This autobiographical text evokes with emotion and lucidity the founding experiences of the revolt and the work of the great feminist philosopher: her turbulent emancipation and the fundamental antagonism between intellectuals and the self-righteous, which will form the basis of the Memoirs of Dutiful Daughter."

French edition: https://www.editionsdelherne.com/public.../les-inseparables/ 
English edition (trans. Lauren Elkin): https://www.penguin.co.uk/.../the.../9781784877002.html 
American edition (trans. Sandra Smith): https://www.harpercollins.com/.../inseparable-simone-de...

ZAZA AND TRUTH-TELLING, by Francis Walsh
In Inseparables and, more generally in Beauvoir's life and work, Zaza is intimately linked to truth and selfhood. Fictional or real, Zaza, in addition to having "personality", an authentic vitality, is the "true friend", the one with whom it is possible to have "true conversations", and the one to whom it is possible to tell the truth about oneself. However, truth and truth-telling are also what is at stake in this friendship; it is what unites the young girls, and what ultimately separates them. This is, at least, the intuition that will be guiding my initial reading of Inseparables. Moreover, as Éliane Lecarme-Tabone showed, Inseparables, Beauvoir's final attempt to translate Zaza's story into fiction, is a pivotal moment in Beauvoir's transition from novel to autobiography, that is, from a truth discourse to another. Why does the coming to autobiography have to pass through the fictionalized account of the death of the "true friend", if not because true friendship is intimately linked not only to the truth about oneself, but also to the general problem of truth and writing, that is to say, written enunciation of truth? The Diary of a Philosophy Student and Beauvoir's epistolary exchanges with Zaza will allow me, in a second step, to shed light on this point, to grasp how truth-telling, selfhood and friendship got entangled. This analysis will not aim to re-establish, in the light of the notebooks and letters, a truth that fiction (or autobiographical writing) would have betrayed; rather, my goal is to understand a recurrence - the entanglement in Beauvoir’s oeuvre between truth-telling, selfhood and Zaza -, and to re-read self-writing and fictional narrative as a set of discursive operations that model in different ways a common enunciation scene: existence, and absence.

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Join us in this interesting discourse on Beauvoir and Zaza! This is a free event and is open to the public. Please fill out and submit this form to complete your registration: https://forms.gle/Kkj5vM5qQLKZjo8JA
The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address the day before the event. 
The session will also be streamed on the Facebook page of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society: https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 and then posted on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSTeeTu4Ez05Ori4r2DSlQ
For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to beauvoirwebinarseries@gmail.com
To become a member of the Society and receive the journal: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html

​Thank you.
Dr. Gina Opiniano and Marine Rouch, 
for The International Simone de Beauvoir Society
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Our partners for this session are : 
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 
What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!