Dr Stephanie Clare on “Beauvoir’s Nonbinary Structure of Feeling”
Intersectional Humanities Programme
25 May 2023, 4.30pm, online - Registration required
Part of the Intersectional Humanities Programme Events
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pTGJ4F-UOKI
Dr Stephanie Clare (University of Washington, Seattle) will be presenting a paper entitled “Beauvoir’s Nonbinary Structure of Feeling” and discussing their new book, Nonbinary: A Feminist Autotheory (Cambridge UP).
This paper argues that a nonbinary structure of feeling characterized by discomfort in white, female embodiment and a longing for a non-sexually differentiated form of human embodiment infuses Simone de Beauvoir’s writing. This structure of feeling need not be read as antifeminist but rather as gesturing toward a desire for sexed transitivity while also seeking to transform gender. That is to say, the authorial voice that emerges across The Second Sex and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter develops both a feminist and trans position, a dual position whose feelings in the world, both past and present, too often have been dismissed.
Stephanie D. Clare is an associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. Clare is a feminist, queer, and trans theorist, author of Earthly Encounters: Sensation, Feminist Theory, and the Anthropocene (2019) and Nonbinary: A Feminist Autotheory (2023).
For more information email intersectionalhumanities@torch.ox.ac.uk.
