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Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilege
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2005
- pp. 178-205
- Article
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How should socially privileged white feminists (and others) address their privilege? Often, individuals are urged to overcome their own personal racism through a politics of self-transformation. The paper argues that this strategy may be problematic, since it rests on an over-autonomous conception of the self. The paper turns to Simone de Beauvoir for an alternative account of the self, as "situated," and explores what this means for a politics of privilege.