Existencialism and gender in Simone de Beauvoir critique and feminism

• Grant number: 11/00327-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2011
• End date: March 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre de Oliveira Torres Carrasco
• Grantee: Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the masterpiece, The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir thinks the gender category having as basis the woman condition. For this, she takes Sartrean categories presented in Being and Nothingness that acquires a specificity in gender discussion that allow us to talk in a "existentialist feminism". To not be unfaithful, however, to Beauvoir project, it is necessary to follow how this feminism is based on a certain existentialism. (AU)