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FRENCH STUDIES
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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knad237
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Jean-Paul Sartre developed a sophisticated and insightful feminist critique of western society through his plays and screenplays, exploring the relations between economic oppression, epistemic injustice, and misogynistic violence, and attributing their root cause to patriarchal norms and the power of bad faith.
Jean-Paul Sartre developed a sophisticated and insightful feminist critique of western society through two plays and two screenplays written between 1944 and 1946 -- Huis clos, Les Jeux sont faits, Typhus, and La Putain respectueuse. In these works, Sartre explores the relations between economic oppression, epistemic injustice, and misogynistic violence, diagnoses their root cause as the patriarchal norms of femininity and masculinity, and ascribes the power of those norms to bad faith and internalized oppression. This social critique, which includes a racial dimension, informs some of his subsequent fictional and philosophical writings. Sartre's analysis of patriarchy has not been noted in writings about these famous dramatic works, a distortion which seems partly due to those same patriarchal norms.
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