Beauvoir's comparison of slavery with sexism does illuminate the privileges white women had in comparison to women of color. Her book "The Second Sex" is a treatise on the importance of women becoming independent, fully functional beings or what Beauvoir called the free woman. For her, this ...
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they don't necessarily want to be free they want to be done they want to go home to their families they want to live life at ease without thinking about everything they are doing, i wouldn't say they want to be free because they don't i mean yes they are fighting for freedom but...
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“the One”, who does not need to justify his position as the default. The woman, on the other hand, is subjected to a social reality the man constructs and is relative to him as “the other”. Beauvoir finds the conditions of theexistence of a womanshape her into complying with this...
Also Simone de Beauvoir: The making of the Intellectual Woman. 目录 ··· Preface A Note on the Text Part I: A Feminism of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir 1. What is a Woman? Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theory 2. I Am a Woman: The Personal and the Philosophical Part II...
And here we have arrived at the triple intersection of the metaphysical with the ontological with the political question: What makes a woman a REAL woman? What does it mean to BE a woman? Although these questions may appear to be the central questions at stake, if feminism has taught me ...
132. “One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.”―Simone de Beauvoir 133. “Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recogni...
Is it possible that we can create a little “paradise” on earth by religiously cultivating the virtue of truth telling? What does it mean that, “In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise.” (Peterson, 2018, p. 230)?
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy. —Lucille Clifton ...