Manon Garcia
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Manon Garcia | |
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 Manon Garcia in 2023 | |
| Born | 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure University of Paris I |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | French feminism |
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Manon Garcia (born 1985)[1] is a French philosopher, specializing in feminist philosophy. Her 2021 book We Are Not Born Submissive (original French title On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient) has been translated into several languages besides English, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German and Spanish.
Garcia studied at the École Normale Supérieure and obtained the agrégation in philosophy in 2014. In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the University of Paris I with a thesis on the thought of Simone de Beauvoir.[1]
Career
She held positions at Harvard University, at the University of Chicago[2] and at Yale University[3] before becoming a junior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2022.[1]
In her book We Are Not Born Submissive (2021, originally published in French in 2018) she distinguishes between two kinds of female submission: one by force, which leaves no choice, and another involving a kind of cost–benefit analysis, which, however, she links not to any "feminine nature", but to social conditioning. To highlight the paradox in a consented female submission, she utilizes the thought of Simone de Beauvoir.[4] In 2021 she published The Joy of Consent, where she argues that sexual consent is not a simple concept and advocates the development of a "contextually sensitive approach".[5]
After attending part of the trial that led to multiple men being convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot, in 2025 Garcia published Living with Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial.[2][6]
