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Latest revision as of 20:11, 4 December 2025
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This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
- Course name
- Sex, Death, Revolution – Simone de Beauvoir and Her Feminist Heirs
- Institution
- Princeton University
- Instructor
- SimonedeBeauvoir2026
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Women’s Studies
- Course dates
- 2026-01-27 00:00:00 UTC – 2026-05-04 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
Simone de Beauvoir was a towering figure whose work shaped how we think about gender, race, aging and death, citizenship, and the good life. Her groundbreaking feminist opus The Second Sex challenged taboos and sparked transnational political movements. This course explores Beauvoir’s interdisciplinary work and legacy through multiple media. Pairing her writings with responses from contemporary authors and filmmakers (including Sara Ahmed, James Baldwin, Annie Ernaux, Paul B. Preciado, and Agnès Varda), we will investigate why her radical techniques continue to inspire feminist activists and artists today.
We will also explore how theoretical concepts transform as they travel between different disciplines and genres, and we will consider the central questions that animated Beauvoir’s thinking throughout her remarkable life. As our main assignment, students will make edits to different articles on Wikipedia (with an option to translate French articles as well). These articles will pertain to the works of Simone de Beauvoir and other feminists, philosophers, and politicians in her orbit. This assignment will lead students to reflect, as Beauvoir herself did, on what counts as “knowledge” and how knowledge is disseminated. We are also interested in participating in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
