Abstract
This paper has two goals: to show why Clare Hemmings’ work, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (2011), which focuses on the types and consequences of feminist “stories,” should be applied to Simone de Beauvoir; and to argue that Beauvoir’s place in the history of feminist thinking should be revisited. I propose to use some of the critical tools gleaned from Hemmings’ text to think through the place of Simone de Beauvoir in feminist theoretical storytelling.
| Original language | Canadian English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 168-175 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Beauvoir
- Hemmings
- Feminism
- stories
- The Second Sex
- philosophy
- feminist history
- political grammar
