Beauvoir transformed phenomenological thought by exposing its patriarchal biases

Evidence

What is fully developed in Beauvoir’s thought is an existential phenomenology that transformed a phenomenological thinking that did not notice its patriarchal silences and biases into a resource for a feminist phenomenology and politics that taught us to treat facts as facticities, to expose the operations of the sedimented powers of facticities, to cut through the seductions of bad faith, and to save the ambiguously anonymous structures of perception and the reciprocal passions of the erotic from the demands of the look. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Beauvoir’s key conceptual moves: treating facts as facticities, exposing sedimented powers, resisting bad faith and the look’s demands.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir grounded existential freedom within gendered historical situations — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 684; Beauvoir repurposes the Hegelian dialectic to analyze women’s historic oppression — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 262; Beauvoir pushes embodied consciousness further than Merleau-Ponty into gendered phenomenology — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 108 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir repurposes the Hegelian dialectic to analyze women’s historic oppression #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 262
• Beauvoir pushes embodied consciousness further than Merleau-Ponty into gendered phenomenology #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 108
• Beauvoir reframed Sartre’s alienating male Look as a reciprocal female gaze #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 277
• Beauvoir shifted bad faith from individual psychoanalysis to collective politics #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 64
• Beauvoir distinguishes women’s authentic appeal from mere supplication within patriarchal categories #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 79
• Beauvoir treated the dialectic as a self-transformative process #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 265
• Beauvoir innovated by pairing Hegel’s immanence with transcendence only in The Second Sex #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 594