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    Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
    Political Theory 40 (2): 165-193. 2012.
    This article compares Hannah Arendt's famous essay on Adolf Eichmann's trial in Israel in 1961 to Simone de Beauvoir's little studied piece, "An Eye for an Eye," on the trial of Robert Brasillach in France in 1945. Arendt and Beauvoir each determine the complicity of individuals acting within a political order that seeks to eliminate certain forms of otherness and difference, but come to differing conclusions about the significance of the crimes. I explain Beauvoir's account of ambiguity, on whi…Read more
  •  69
    Calls for Papers
    with Michaele Ferguson
    Hypatia 20 (2): 236-236. 2005.
  •  55
    Starting with Richard Wright’s controversial address to the Paris Congress of Black Writers and Authors of 1956, this article explores Wright’s and Simone de Beauvoir’s focus on existential freedom as key to an emancipatory political subjectivity. Both Wright and Beauvoir reject the content of identity formed via oppression, seeking to move beyond categories of culture, religion, femininity and blackness. They argue that solidarity can be better forged across identity groups by nurturing a polit…Read more
  •  38
    Freaks of Nature (review)
    Political Theory 39 (3). 2011.
  •  24
    Feminist sexual futures
    with Judith Grant, Lorna Bracewell, and Jocelyn Boryczka
    Contemporary Political Theory 22 (1): 94-117. 2023.
  •  23
    The Poverty of American Politics
    Theory and Event 16 (1). forthcoming.
  •  21
    The loving citizen: Germaine de staël's Delphine
    Journal of Political Philosophy 5 (2). 1997.
  •  18
    This article explores the life and work of Emma Goldman to formulate a radical critique of intimacy. Goldman’s theory of sexual freedom and revolutionary love offers a feminist vision that challenges contemporary debates concerning uses of the language of feminine desire. Goldman appealed to ideals of feminine instinct and feminine desire in order to challenge the conventional meanings attached to femininity in her day. Her views on marriage, love, sexuality and the feminine are analysed alongsi…Read more
  •  17
    Simone de Beauvoir and the politics of ambiguity
    Contemporary Political Theory 13 (4). 2012.
  •  10
    Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking (edited book)
    with Patricia Moynagh
    University of Illinois Press. 2006.
    By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can, and must, play a part in transforming.
  •  9
    The Perversions of Bored Liberals
    Political Theory 36 (1): 123-128. 2008.
    Counting himself as a boring liberal who would usually dismiss the likes of thinkers such as Emma Goldman as the radical fringe, Don Herzog purports to engage with Goldman's work in order to interrogate the political centrality of reasonableness among liberals and deliberative democrats. Casting Goldman as a lovesick radical, Herzog invites us to read her activism and politics as an affective stance resulting in an accurate critique of the Soviet state. This move countenances Herzog's perverted …Read more
  •  9
    Simone de Beauvoir et la rencontre cinématographique
    with Marie-Anne Lescourret
    Cités 2 131-144. 2022.
  •  7
    In _Politics with Beauvoir_ Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through Marso's notion of the encounter. Starting with Beauvoir's political encounters with several of her key contemporaries including Hannah Arendt, Robert Brasillach, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, and Violette Leduc, Marso also moves beyond historical context to stage encounters …Read more
  •  6
    The Loving Citizen: Germaine de Staël's Delphine
    Journal of Political Philosophy 5 (2): 109-131. 1997.
  •  6
    Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics
    In Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.
    Beauvoir's writings index the politics of ontological, structural, instrumental, and affective instances of violence. In all cases, she sees violence as a result of political practices. Rather than simply deploring or condemning violence, however, Beauvoir demonstrates that we have to understand that it delineates and is manifest in all our relationships and representations. Nevertheless, we need not accept violence, and indeed, we must struggle against it. Oppressive human relationships situate…Read more
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    The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authorsof the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and activists, well-established and emerging, old and young and in-b…Read more
  •  3
    From the Editors
    with Lawrie Balfour, Jill Frank, and Nancy Luxon
    Political Theory 48 (4): 419-420. 2020.
  •  2
    From the Editors
    with Lawrie Balfour, Jill Frank, and Nancy Luxon
    Political Theory 009059172093731. forthcoming.
  • In (Un)Manly Citizens, political theorist Lori Jo Marso explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of French Enlightenment figures Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Staël. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of an alternative conception of the self, citizenship, and democratic politics. Marso departs from previous feminist scholarship on Rousseau by reading Emile and La Nou…Read more
  • In my dissertation, I compare two models of gendered morality put forth as appropriate for citizenship in the eighteenth century: detached men and passionate women. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Stael complicate and challenge the Enlightenment philosophy in which they were steeped by seeking to embody women and men in their claim that subjectivity, and hence moral sensibility, is gendered. The political theory they develop includes the determination that our bodies have a profound impact…Read more
  • Can We Find Our Mothers in Time?
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (2): 457-471. 2021.