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A review by elfs29
Extracts From: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
informative
reflective
sad
5.0
As a foundational feminist text, Beauvoir lays out many truths of the reality of women, and existentially what the concept of Otherness is and how it has infiltrated every facet of society. It makes me very sad that almost everything in this text is still applicable to our society although it was written seventy five years ago.
Woman has made no effort to displace man as the One. It is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other is posited as Other by the One positing itself as One. In order for the Other not to turn into the One, the Other has to submit to this foreign point of view. Where does this submission in woman come from?
Woman has made no effort to displace man as the One. It is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other is posited as Other by the One positing itself as One. In order for the Other not to turn into the One, the Other has to submit to this foreign point of view. Where does this submission in woman come from?