Le Corps et Le Soi, en Tant Que Féminine

Le Corps et Le Soi, en Tant Que Féminine

French

Existential explorations of identity and agency often come from the perspective of those who occupy unmarked categories. Living in a body that is marked as “other” with agency that is severely limited by external forces impacts the ways in which the world and the self is understood. I am interested in the ways which francophone feminist philosophers specifically have approached what feminine embodiment means for women’s sense of self and identity. How does the tension between immanence and transcendence which Beauvoir identifies as part of the feminine experience relate to the experience of embodiment? In French, I will present an overview of some of these ideas and a few contemporary considerations regarding 21st century developments, in particular the advent of social media, the implications of “branding” one’s self, and the growing acceptance of more nuanced conceptualizations of gender.