Nov 18, 7:00 PM: Manon Garcia on "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes ...

Join us for a conversation with Manon Garcia on her new book "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives." Garcia will be joined in conversation by Nancy Bauer. About the Book: In her new book, WE ARE NOT BORN SUBMISSIVE: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives (Princeton University Press), philosopher Manon Garcia returns to feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, and examines the complex ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women’s experiences. Ultimately, she asserts that women do not actively choose submission. Rather, they consent to—and sometimes take pleasure in—what is prescribed to them through social norms within a patriarchy. Throughout the book, Garcia demonstrates that the submission of women is a crucial topic for both feminism and philosophy and that Beauvoir’s thinking provides deeply original, important, and relevant ways to understand it. We Are Not Born Submissive demonstrates that only through the lens of women’s lived experiences and the ways they adapt to society around them, can we understand the ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women’s experiences. There is submission in the fact of “dieting” or starving oneself to fit a size 0. There is submission in the behavior of wives of academics or writers who are participating in the research and are not credited as co-authors. There is submission in taking up the entire mental load of the family. There is submission in accepting that men don’t do their fair share of domestic work or parenting. About the author: Manon Garcia is an assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University. Twitter @ManonGarciaFR About the interlocutor: Nancy Bauer is professor of Philosophy and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2001) and How to Do Things With Pornography (Harvard University Press, 2015). Co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. This event is free and open to the public but registration is required via the link below.

Date: November 18, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM