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Power, Sex, and Myth: Beauvoir, Paglia, and Peterson

  • Karen Vintges (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitlePower, Sex, and Myth: Beauvoir, Paglia, and Peterson
ContributorKaren Vintges (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH04
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractKaren Vintges, in her contribution, “Power, Sex, and Myth: Beauvoir, Paglia, and Peterson,” compares the work on myths of the art historian Camille Paglia and the psychologist Jordan Peterson with Simone de Beauvoir’s work, <i>The Second Sex</i>, a large part of which is on myths as well. Whereas, according to Beauvoir, dominant myths about power, sex, and gender are historically determined, and therefore changeable, according to Paglia and Peterson, these myths are timeless and inescapable, constituting the “truth of history.” Contrasting Beauvoir’s <i>The Second Sex</i> with Paglia’s and Peterson’s approaches, Vintges evaluates to what extent this work still provides us with concepts that help us to better understand today’s world. Finally, the author evaluates to what extent the work of Peterson can be seen as exemplary for current right wing populist parties and movements, showing us what their connecting principle is.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Karen Vintges

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Karen Vintges is Associate Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research at the University of Amsterdam. For over 40 years she was Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Her books include Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Indiana UP 1996), Feminism and the Final Foucault (edited by D. Taylor and K. Vintges, University of Illinois Press 2004), A New Dawn for the Second Sex: Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective (Amsterdam UP 2017), Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit (edited by L. Schoonheim and K. Vintges. Routledge 2024).