Download or read book Beauvoir and Belle written by Kathryn Sophia Belle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex my intention is to center some of the feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued after The Second Sex. This approach also functions as a corrective to some of the exclusionary tendencies in The Second Sex itself. Having said that, I also take seriously the ways that Black women and other Women of Color have productively engaged this text. By presenting how Black and other Women of Color have critically engaged with this text, I am also exposing the ways that existing Beauvoir scholarship has mostly ignored these engagements, thereby replicating Beauvoir's exclusions in the text. I make the following main arguments about The Second Sex: despite its noteworthy contributions and insights, some of the limitations of the text include the analogical approach to identity and oppression, the deployment of comparative and competing frameworks of oppression, as well as the ways in which Black women and other Women of Color are either not engaged at all in some cases or problematically engaged in other cases in the text. Additionally, focusing on select secondary literature, I argue that while seeking to enshrine Beauvoir in the gilded halls of philosophy, much of the white feminist secondary literature on The Second Sex duplicates her exclusions of Black women and other Women of Color (e.g., by not citing Black feminists and other Women of Color feminists who explicitly take up this text or by citing but not substantively engaging the arguments offered by Black women and other Women of Color), thereby perpetuating the very silencing of women's voices that they often decry in the discipline of philosophy"--