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Lived accounts of #MeToo and slanting towards Beauvoir

In: Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought

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  • Patricia Moynagh

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This chapter draws upon Simone de Beauvoir’s political thought to demonstrate how #MeToo provides a step towards ending sexual oppression. It suggests that Beauvoir’s key concepts—especially freedom and ambiguity and situation and singularity—can enrich an accounting of #MeToo and its future possibilities. Further engagement with Beauvoir’s work today might produce more innovations in regard to breaking silences and opposing oppression, sexual assaults high among them. While engaging a host of feminist political thinkers, the chapter is an ultimate call for how best to achieve sexual justice and sexual freedom. It maintains that just as Beauvoir’s writing public answered her call to break silences in her own times, today’s #MeToo movement is slanting towards Beauvoir and speaking up.

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  • Patricia Moynagh, 2024. "Lived accounts of #MeToo and slanting towards Beauvoir," Chapters, in: Mary Caputi & Patricia Moynagh (ed.), Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, chapter 10, pages 218-249, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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