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The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation in Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-49: History, Oppression, and Sexual Difference https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.118145 Ceschi, Anna Tomaselli, Sylvana The main objective of this thesis is to reconstruct the non-linear but rather genealogical development of Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of “situation” in her works from 1940 to the publication of The Second Sex in 1949. The starting point of this thesis is the belief that situation, which grounds Beauvoir’s perspective to comprehend the complex relationship between the objective and the subjective dimensions of existence, plays a key role in her feminist political thought because of the way it relates to history, oppression, and sexual difference. Proceeding from this assumption, this dissertation outlines an original framework to comprehend how Beauvoir’s perspective became more and more political through the 1940s. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the ongoing reflection on the value of Beauvoir’s situation for contemporary feminist theory. University of Cambridge 2024-08-12 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng Cambridge European & Wolfson College https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/383978 controlled.access https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/c5af365f-336e-44e3-938a-a39b43377832/download a6ecd3d4ebfe5e28e68f21f4f704be49 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/e28cf0b2-7f13-4f46-a819-f441ff1f4118/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved Simone de Beauvoir Concept of Situation Political Thought and Philosophy Existentialism Marxism Feminism