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Subjugation, freedom, and recognition in Poulain de la Barre and Simone de Beauvoir
2022
In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir cited the fairly unknown author Poulain de la Barre in an epigraph for The Second Sex (1949). When reading The Second Sex, one soon realizes that there are profound similarities between the two authors’ discussions of women’s situation. Both Poulain and Beauvoir view the subjection of women as a process that includes choice as well as force. Liberation necessarily requires overcoming opinions rooted in custom and prejudice. The article develops a comparison between the arguments of Poulain and Beauvoir in order to illuminate interesting features in the works of both authors. The focus is on similarities as well as differences. The first section examines how preju…
Mi chiamo Serban e non sono il romeno di nessuno, sono il romeno di me stesso. Pratiche di assoggettamento e soggettivazione tra pastori sardi e serv…
2018
«I am Serban, a Romanian who does not belong to anybody, I belong to my- self». Subjugation and subjectification practices between Sardinian she- pherds and Romanian servant shepherds The article investigates the role of the Romanian paid worker in the Sardinian countryside that replaces the traditional figure of the local «servo pastore» (Sardinian servant shepherd). The focus is on the symbolic and relational ten- sion between Sardinian shepherds and Romanian salaried workers, starting from extensive ethnographic material based on participant observation and in-depth interviews. By analyzing their work practices and daily interactions as well as what the Sardinians said about the Romanian…