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Kate Kirkpatrick
Lecturer, University of Oxford
Kate Kirkpatrick is tutorial fellow in philosophy and Christian ethics at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. She is the author of, most recently, the biography Becoming Beauvoir (2019).
Written by Kate Kirkpatrick

essayAgeing and death
Old not Other
Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer
Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks

essayLove and friendship
Love is a joint project
For Simone de Beauvoir, authentic love is an ethical undertaking: it can be spoilt by devotion as much as by selfishness
Kate Kirkpatrick

ideaGender
Why Simone de Beauvoir didn’t believe in being ‘a strong woman’
Kate Kirkpatrick