![]() A man, however, remains “the One”, who does not need to justify his position as the default. For her, then, liberation is the recognition of the difference between the members of the community, establishing and creating “individual” women.Īkin to Nietzsche’s ressentiment, women are taught to internalize the social idea of womanhood- leading them to wallow in the lack of their personhood. This induced a collective comfort in the social and economic dependence on the “man”. Beauvoir argues that by attributing the biological difference to inferiority, the individuality of a singular woman is snatched away from her. ![]() However, this distinction has historically been used to establish “the fact of male supremacy a right”. ![]() The distinction between the “man” and the “woman”, she argues, is primarily biological. Woman as the “Other” Market by candlelight by Petrus van Schendel, 1865, via Wikimedia Commons.īeauvoir begins by tackling the question- “What is a woman?”. There are two volumes to this work- the first one dealing with Facts and Myths, and the second one with Lived Experience.ġ. Beauvoir undertakes a phenomenological investigation in Second Sex– taking from the experience of women and solidarizing them in a way as to derive the methods of subjugation of femininity as a social construct. Published in 1949, the Second Sex came to become a treatise on feminism. Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir by Francois Lochon via Getty Images. ![]()
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