Beauvoir and Belle

Kathryn Sophia Belle is Associate Professor of Philosophy and affiliate faculty in AFAM and WGSS at Pennsylvania State University. She is also Director of the Africana Research Center. Primary research and teaching interests include African American/Africana Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (especially Existentialism), and Critical Philosophy of Race. She is co-editor of Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (2010) and author of Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (2014). Professor Belle is the founding director of Collegium of Black Women Philosophers and a founding co-editor (2013-2016) of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race.

Preface
Introduction: "Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex"
Part 1
1. A Select Genealogy of Black Feminist Frameworks for Identities and Oppressions: "If we are not careful the work we are doing now is going to have to be 'rediscovered' at some point"
2. Claudia Jones: "The Negro question in the United States is prior to, and not equal to, the woman question"
3. Lorraine Hansberry: "The Second Sex may well be the most important work of this century"
4. Audre Lorde: "Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged"
Part 2
5. Simone de Beauvoir's Analogical Approach: "There are deep analogies between the situations of women and blacks"
6. Slavery and Womanhood: "Assimilating woman to the slave is a mistake"
7. Abolition and Suffrage in the US: "They undertook a campaign in favor of blacks"
Part 3
8. The Coloniality of Gender and the other Others: "The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself"
Conclusion: Simone de Beauvoir: "I think The Second Sex will seem like an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless. . . a book which will have made its contribution"
Index