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SUMMARY:Law and Custom in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex  - Kate Ki
 rkpatrick
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DESCRIPTION:\nEvent date\n11 June 2025\nEvent time\n15:30 - 17:00\nOxford 
 week\nTT 7\nVenue\nFaculty of Law - Seminar Room F\n\nSimone de Beauvoir
 ’s The Second Sex was published 1949\, at the end of a turbulent decade 
 in France. In July 1943 Marie-Louise Giraud was the last woman to be put t
 o death by guillotine—by the Vichy government\, for performing abortions
 . In 1944\, French women gained the right to vote\; in 1945 they first vot
 ed. On 27 October 1946 the constitution of the Fourth French Republic was 
 approved—including a new declaration of rights. And in 10 December 1948\
 , the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Right
 s in Paris. When Simone de Beauvoir introduced The Second Sex\, she descri
 bed it as an attempt “to take stock of the current state” of women in 
 France after “an era of muddled controversy”.\n\n \n\nAlthough it has 
 become a commonplace in feminist theory to criticize or dismiss this work 
 as insufficiently intersectional\, whether it is depends on what we take i
 ts aims and scope to be. These\, I argue\, are better understood in view o
 f its historical situation. Beauvoir’s moral and political philosophy as
 signs an absolute value to each human being. But she was not triumphalist 
 about rights: in The Second Sex we read “Even when rights are recognized
  in the abstract\,” she writes\, “a long habit prevents them finding c
 oncrete expression in customs.” Bringing The Second Sex into dialogue wi
 th Montesquieu’s distinction between law and custom in The Spirit of the
  Laws\, this presentation will draw on my paper ‘Femininity\, love\, and
  alienation’ to outline the customs Beauvoir believed perpetuated injust
 ice for women and the value theory by which she condemned them."\n\n \n\n 
 \n\nKate Kirkpatrick is Fellow in Philosophy at Regent’s Park College\, 
 Oxford. She is the author of several books and articles on twentieth-centu
 ry French philosophy\, especially the works of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean
 -Paul Sartre. Her acclaimed biography of Simone de Beauvoir\, Becoming Bea
 uvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury\, 2019) has been translated into eleven language
 s. In 2021 she was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her
  current project\, a philosophy commentary on The Second Sex.\n\nMicrosoft
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SUMMARY:Oxford Forum Book Launch and Discussion: Sartre and Theology - Kat
 e Kirkpatrick
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DESCRIPTION:Oxford Forum Book Launch and Discussion: Sartre and Theology\n
 \nMonday 23 October\, 5:15 - 6.45pm\, The Dorfman Lecture Theatre\, St Pet
 er’s College\n\n\n\nBook launch and discussion\nSartre and Theology by K
 ate Kirkpatrick  \n\nSpeakers:\n\nKate Kirkpatrick\, Lecturer in Philosoph
 y\, University of Hertfordshire\; Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Theology\, S
 t Peter’s College\, University of Oxford\nJonathan Webber\, Professor of
  Philosophy\, University of Cardiff\nJohannes Zachhuber\, Professor of His
 torical and Systematic Theology\, University of Oxford\n\nChair: Katherine
  Morris\, Fellow in Philosophy\, Mansfield College\, University of Oxford\
 n\n\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominen
 t atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and the
 mes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. In Sartre and Theo
 logy\, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely di
 scussed early work\, demonstrating how\, and which\, theology shaped Sartr
 e's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's philosophy - especially Being a
 nd Nothingness and Existentialism is A Humanism - contributed to several p
 rominent twentieth-century theologies\, examining Catholic\, Protestant\, 
 Orthodox\, and Liberation theologians' rebuttals and appropriations of Sar
 tre.\n\nFor more information contact Dr Roxana Baiasu: roxana.baiasu@philo
 sophy.ox.ac.uk\nSpeakers:\nKate Kirkpatrick
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