In this episode, Dianna Taylor argues in favour of feminist counter-violence as responses to the sexual violence that both underpins and is reproduced by gender oppression. Beauvoir provides a concept of counter-violence in her discussion of resistance against fascist and colonial violence — and even if Beauvoir does not do so herself, we can extend this concept to her analysis of feminist liberation. 

This lecture is moderated by Guilel Treiber. 

Hosted by Ashika Singh and Liesbeth Schoonheim

More reading.....

• Simone de Beauvoir. ‘An Eye for an Eye’. In Philosophical Writings, ed.  Margaret Simons, Marybeth Timmermann, and Mary Beth Mader, translated by Kristina Arp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.


• Simone de Beauvoir. ‘Pyrrhus and Cineas’. In Philosophical Writings, ed.  Margaret Simons, Marybeth Timmermann, and Mary Beth Mader, translated by Marybeth Timmermann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.


• Simone de Beauvoir. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Open Road Media, 2015.


• Taylor, Dianna. Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective. Routledge, 2019.