Manon Garcia

Manon Garcia (born 1985) 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.

Early life and education 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. and at Yale University before becoming a junior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2022. 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".

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.

Awards and distinctions Her book La conversation des sexes (Éditions Flammarion, 2021) won the Prix PhiloMonaco essay prize in 2022. It is rendered in English translation as The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex, published by Belknap Press in 2023.

Publications In English

In French On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient. Climats, 2018 La Conversation des sexes: Philosophie du consentement. Climats, 2021 'Key texts of feminist philosophy' (ed.), Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, "Key Texts", 2021 Vivre avec les hommes: Réflexions sur le procès Pelicot. Climats, 2025 "De l'oppression à l'indépendance. La philosophie de l'amour dans Le Deuxième Sexe." ['From Oppression to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love in The Second Sex.'] Philosophie 144 (2020) 48–63