Megan Burke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Burke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Burke |
| SIGNATURE | BURKE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disobedient anonymity and the politics of protesting violence against women
This article accounts for a particular kind of politicised anonymity, namely 'disobedient anonymity', that operates as a liberatory response to the longue durée of gender violence. We examine the street performance Un violador en tu camino created by the Chilean feminist theatre collective LASTESIS, to show how disobedient anonymity is an embodied and collective disruption of colonial subjectification and state-sanctioned gender violence. Buildin…
Erotic Ambivalence in Beauvoir’s Student Diaries
This article challenges Margaret E. Simons’s claim that Sartre forced himself on Beauvoir on October 15, 1929. We argue that Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 3, 1926–30 depicts the young Beauvoir struggling with conflicting feelings about marriage, sexual desire, and gender roles. Highlighting early reflections on “the woman in love,” we suggest that Beauvoir’s diary discloses gendered harm but not sexual violation. We name this harm erotic …
Disclosure to South African children about their own HIV status over time
Disclosure to children living with HIV (CLHIV) about their own status is associated with positive outcomes such as treatment adherence, but prior cross-sectional studies in sub-Saharan Africa report disclosure rates of <50%. This study aims to assess pediatric disclosure over time. 548 CLHIV were followed from 2/2013-4/2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cumulative incidence of disclosure was calculated with Kaplan-Meier analysis, and disclosure …
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Antepartum Sars-CoV-2 infection and adverse birth outcomes in South African women
Background: SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women has been associated with severe illness in the women and higher rates of premature delivery. There is, however, paucity of data on the impact of the timing of SARS-CoV-2 infection and on symptomatic or asymptomatic infections on birth outcomes. Data from low-middle income settings is also lacking. Methods: We conducted a longitudinal study from April 2020 to March 2021, in South Africa, where sym…
On Bad Faith and Authenticity
This article considers the ethical dimension of contemporary first-person avowals of genderless or agender subjectivity. Drawing on Talia Mae Bettcher’s transfeminist account of transgender first-person authority and Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialist notion of choice, the author argues that authentic first-person avowals of genderlessness are gestures that pursue ethical self–other relations. In doing so, this article reconciles Beauvoir’s clai…
A description of early neurodevelopment in a cohort of HIV-exposed uninfected children
Introduction: Successful strategies preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission have resulted in increasing numbers of uninfected children exposed to maternal HIV and ART in-utero, and while breastfeeding. Some reports describe exposure as impacting neurodevelopment. Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 49 of the 70 HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) birth-enrolled children as the control arm of an observational cohort study of early treatme…
Educational delays among children living with perinatally-acquired HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa
Little is known about how growing up with HIV impacts educational outcomes in sub-Saharan African children. We evaluated if South African children living with HIV (CLWH) were in the appropriate school grade-for-age compared to uninfected control children. We observed higher rates of not being in the correct grade-for-age in CLWH compared with controls (OR 3.32, 95% CI: 2.07-5.34), adjusted for study site, sex, whether the child's biological fathe…
Introducing the Social Robot Mario to People Living with Dementia in Long Term Residential Care
Beauvoirian androgyny
This article considers Beauvoir's gesture towards fraternité at the end of The Second Sex (1949) by focusing on her fleeting characterisation of this future as 'an androgynous world'. Generally, either Beauvoir's call for fraternité is dismissed as an erasure of sexual difference and is thus seen to be politically bankrupt, or fraternité is understood to realise sexual difference. This latter reading suggests that androgyny plays no role in Beauv…
Gender as Lived Time
This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passiv…
Love as a Hollow
This article argues that Maurice Merleau‐Ponty advances a queer notion of love. In particular, I argue that his notion of love as an institution, as a hollow fueled by the imaginary dimension of existence, shows that love unhinges petrified ideals of gender. I suggest that the crucial insight to be found in Merleau‐Ponty's account of love is that love is a lived openness that invites us to seek out new ways of being
Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Lesbian Existence
Introducing the Social Robot Mario to People Living with Dementia in Long Term Residential Care
Gender as Lived Time
This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passiv…
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Beauvoirian androgyny
This article considers Beauvoir's gesture towards fraternité at the end of The Second Sex (1949) by focusing on her fleeting characterisation of this future as 'an androgynous world'. Generally, either Beauvoir's call for fraternité is dismissed as an erasure of sexual difference and is thus seen to be politically bankrupt, or fraternité is understood to realise sexual difference. This latter reading suggests that androgyny plays no role in Beauv…
Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Lesbian Existence
Love as a Hollow
This article argues that Maurice Merleau‐Ponty advances a queer notion of love. In particular, I argue that his notion of love as an institution, as a hollow fueled by the imaginary dimension of existence, shows that love unhinges petrified ideals of gender. I suggest that the crucial insight to be found in Merleau‐Ponty's account of love is that love is a lived openness that invites us to seek out new ways of being
Gender as Lived Time
This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passiv…
Introducing the Social Robot Mario to People Living with Dementia in Long Term Residential Care
Beauvoirian androgyny
This article considers Beauvoir's gesture towards fraternité at the end of The Second Sex (1949) by focusing on her fleeting characterisation of this future as 'an androgynous world'. Generally, either Beauvoir's call for fraternité is dismissed as an erasure of sexual difference and is thus seen to be politically bankrupt, or fraternité is understood to realise sexual difference. This latter reading suggests that androgyny plays no role in Beauv…
On Bad Faith and Authenticity
This article considers the ethical dimension of contemporary first-person avowals of genderless or agender subjectivity. Drawing on Talia Mae Bettcher’s transfeminist account of transgender first-person authority and Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialist notion of choice, the author argues that authentic first-person avowals of genderlessness are gestures that pursue ethical self–other relations. In doing so, this article reconciles Beauvoir’s clai…
A description of early neurodevelopment in a cohort of HIV-exposed uninfected children
Introduction: Successful strategies preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission have resulted in increasing numbers of uninfected children exposed to maternal HIV and ART in-utero, and while breastfeeding. Some reports describe exposure as impacting neurodevelopment. Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 49 of the 70 HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) birth-enrolled children as the control arm of an observational cohort study of early treatme…
Educational delays among children living with perinatally-acquired HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa
Little is known about how growing up with HIV impacts educational outcomes in sub-Saharan African children. We evaluated if South African children living with HIV (CLWH) were in the appropriate school grade-for-age compared to uninfected control children. We observed higher rates of not being in the correct grade-for-age in CLWH compared with controls (OR 3.32, 95% CI: 2.07-5.34), adjusted for study site, sex, whether the child's biological fathe…
Antepartum Sars-CoV-2 infection and adverse birth outcomes in South African women
Background: SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women has been associated with severe illness in the women and higher rates of premature delivery. There is, however, paucity of data on the impact of the timing of SARS-CoV-2 infection and on symptomatic or asymptomatic infections on birth outcomes. Data from low-middle income settings is also lacking. Methods: We conducted a longitudinal study from April 2020 to March 2021, in South Africa, where sym…
Disclosure to South African children about their own HIV status over time
Disclosure to children living with HIV (CLHIV) about their own status is associated with positive outcomes such as treatment adherence, but prior cross-sectional studies in sub-Saharan Africa report disclosure rates of <50%. This study aims to assess pediatric disclosure over time. 548 CLHIV were followed from 2/2013-4/2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cumulative incidence of disclosure was calculated with Kaplan-Meier analysis, and disclosure …
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Erotic Ambivalence in Beauvoir’s Student Diaries
This article challenges Margaret E. Simons’s claim that Sartre forced himself on Beauvoir on October 15, 1929. We argue that Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 3, 1926–30 depicts the young Beauvoir struggling with conflicting feelings about marriage, sexual desire, and gender roles. Highlighting early reflections on “the woman in love,” we suggest that Beauvoir’s diary discloses gendered harm but not sexual violation. We name this harm erotic …
Disobedient anonymity and the politics of protesting violence against women
This article accounts for a particular kind of politicised anonymity, namely 'disobedient anonymity', that operates as a liberatory response to the longue durée of gender violence. We examine the street performance Un violador en tu camino created by the Chilean feminist theatre collective LASTESIS, to show how disobedient anonymity is an embodied and collective disruption of colonial subjectification and state-sanctioned gender violence. Buildin…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (5 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)