"Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being."
1908-1986
Birth place
Paris, France
Works
The Second Sex; Ethics of Ambiguity; The Mandarins;etc
Reveiw
The Second Sex speaks of the specific ways in which the natural and social sciences and the European literary, social, political and religious traditions have created a mystified world where impossible and conflicting ideals of femininity produce an ideology of women's “natural” inferiority to justify patriarchal domination. The book is based on her experience as a woman and her life in reality as a woman.
“One is not born but becomes a woman” (The Second Sex, 267)
It introduces the meaning of the sex-gender distinction.
"Beauvoir's The Second Sex gave us the vocabulary for analyzing the social constructions of femininity and the structure for critiquing these constructions. From a phenomenological perspective this most famous line of The Second Sex pursues the first rule of phenomenology: suspend judgments, identify your assumptions, treat them as prejudices and put them aside; do not bring them back into play until and unless they have been validated by experience."
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