Sartre introduced gender themes into philosophy before Kant, Husserl, or Heidegger did

Evidence

Whereas Beauvoir, for reasons already mentioned here (e.g., the perceived unsuitableness of such an enterprise to “la condition féminine”) as well as, no doubt, others that have gone unmentioned, never undertook to elaborate a systematic ontology and certainly wrote considerably less than Sartre— though far from nothing— about political matters, the most glaring hiatus in his writing by comparison with hers obviously has to do with feminist issues. … Despite the familiar pejorative references, in Being and Nothingness, to “holes and slime” most closely associated with the female sex that have warranted so much unfavorable feminist criticism of Sartre over the years and that constitute what would today be seen as at least a bizarre and inexcusable failure of political correctness, the fact remains that on a personal level Sartre felt very much at home in the company of women (by his own account more so than in the company of men) and that on a theoretical level his introduction of gender themes into his philosophical magnum opus was a positive historical contribution of the fi rst order. (Consider, by contrast, how little that is of theoretical value is said about gender in the writings of Kant, Husserl, or Heidegger.) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 530

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the Beauvoir-Sartre asymmetry each author’s corpus shows toward the other’s signature topics — a thread this book keeps developing.