Opinie. Is het feminisme een kolonialisme? De erfenis van Simone de Beauvoir
Auteurs
Karen Vintgens
Samenvatting
The recent claiming of Simone de Beauvoir’s
legacy by French feminists for a policy of assimilation
of Muslim women to the dominant
Western liberal models of self and society,
affects the complexity and richness of Beauvoir’s
views. Paradigmatic as her thinking
is for contemporary Western feminism it is
important to realize that her feminist ideals
of (access for all to) ‘true freedom’ and of
an egalitarian society surpass the dominant
forms of Western liberalism in substantial
ways. Her positive concept of ‘true freedom’
or ‘ethical freedom’ does not correspond to
Western liberalism’s ‘negative’ concept of
freedom as the absence of constraints. Nor
does her egalitarian concept of society resemble
Western liberalism’s model of society
in its dichotomous organization of labor and
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