Elaine Stavro

Elaine Stavro is Professor Emerita of Political Theory in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University. She has written numerous articles on Simone de Beauvoir, most recently "Why Thoughtfulness Matters Black Lives Matter and Elsewhere," forthcoming (2023), in Simone de Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century and published Emancipatory Thinking: The Political Thought of Simone De Beauvoir (2018). Her research interest focuses on feminist thinking, continental philosophy, radical...See more

Elaine Stavro is Professor Emerita of Political Theory in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University. She has written numerous articles on Simone de Beauvoir, most recently "Why Thoughtfulness Matters Black Lives Matter and Elsewhere," forthcoming (2023), in Simone de Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century and published Emancipatory Thinking: The Political Thought of Simone De Beauvoir (2018). Her research interest focuses on feminist thinking, continental philosophy, radical democratic theory, and the intersection of deliberation and affect, as reflected in "SARS and Alterity: The Toronto-China Binary" in Political Science (2014). See less