Manon Garcia

Manon Garcia
Born	1985 (age 39–40) France
Alma mater	University of Paris I
Region	feminist philosophy
Institutions	Harvard University University of Chicago

Manon Garcia (born 1985) is a French philosopher, specializing in feminist philosophy. Her book We Are Not Born Submissive[1] (originally On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient) has been translated into several languages besides English, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German and Spanish.

Life and work

She studied at École normale supérieure and obtained the agrégation in philosophy in 2014. In 2017, she completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne.

In 2016, she obtained a teaching position at Harvard University, then a research and teaching position at the University of Chicago.

According to her, there are two forms of submission: one by force, which leaves no choice but to submit, and another more complex one, involving a kind of "cost-benefit calculation". However, this submission would not be linked to any "feminine nature", but the result of social conditioning. She analyzes the causes that push women into submission, and highlights the paradox in a consented female submission, notably through the thought of Simone de Beauvoir, herself a model of contradictions between a form of submission in her personal life and a desire to revolutionize social norms.

Publications

In English

• Garcia, Manon (2021). We are not born submissive. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691201825.

• Garcia, Manon (2023). The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex. United States of America: Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674279131.

In French

• (fr) On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient
• 'Key texts of feminist philosophy' (ed.), Vrin, "Key Texts", 2021
• From Oppression to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love in The Second Sex (In French: 'De l’oppression à l’indépendance. La philosophie de l’amour dans Le Deuxième Sexe'), Philosophie, n° 144, 2020, pp. 48–63
• 2021 : (fr) La Conversation des sexes

References

1. "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives - Harvard Book Store". harvard.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.

External links

• 2021 Interview in English at the Institut Français website
• Official website
• "Manon Garcia". philosophy.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-29.