How Simone de Beauvoir got me cancelled

How Simone de Beauvoir got me cancelled

In 2022, I signed a contract with an academic press for a book on Simone de Beauvoir, titled Beauvoirian Feminism. Two years later, I finished the book, which foregrounded the feminist thinker’s claim that biology is key to women’s experience. I’m a full professor of sociology at the University of Liverpool, and publication of finished academic works at my level is usually a matter of course.  On this topic, however, things did not go smoothly. …