There is a truth, however uncomfortable, to be found in Madeleine Albright‘s recent remarks–at a Hillary Clinton campaign rally–that women who don’t support other women (in politics) have a special place in a very hot place reserved just for them. (Albright, justly notorious for her infamous remark suggesting the deaths of thousands of Iraqi childrenContinue reading “Madeleine Albright, Simone De Beauvoir, And Hillary Clinton’s Responsibility To Women”
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Beauvoir, Morrison and Gordimer on Sex
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote that a conceptual inversion of the sexual act was possible: perhaps woman was not merely ‘penetrated’ or ‘entered into’ by man, perhaps she ‘enveloped’ or ‘engulfed’ him instead. Sex was not an ‘invasion’ of the woman, it was an active seeking out instead. The change in perspective engendered by consideringContinue reading “Beauvoir, Morrison and Gordimer on Sex”
Samir Chopra 