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Simone de Beauvoir - Theories
- NO SEPARATE WOMAN'S NATURE
- Later in the 1970s, Simone de Beauvoir was dismayed by the idea of a separate, mystical, 'feminine
nature'.
- "Just as i do not think
that women are
inferior to men, nor do i
believe that they are
natural superiors
either".
- In The Second Sex, Beauvoir had famously stated, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a
woman'. Women are different from men because of what they have been taught and socialised
to do and be. It was dangerous, she said, to imagine an 'eternal feminine' nature, in which
women were in touch with the earth and the cycles of the moon. According to Beauvoir, this
was just another way for men to control women, by telling them that they were better off in
their cosmic, spiritual 'eternal feminine, kept away from men's knowledge and left without all
the men's concerns.
- "Just as i do not think
that women are
inferior to men, nor do i
believe that they are
natural superiors
either".
- Later in the 1970s, Simone de Beauvoir was dismayed by the idea of a separate, mystical, 'feminine
nature'.
- A RETURN TO ENSLAVEMENT
- The notion of a 'woman's nature'
struck Simone de Beauvoir as further
oppression. She called motherhood a
way of turning women into slaves. It
did not have to be that way, but it
usually ended up that way in society
precisely because women were told to
concern themselves with their own
divine nature. They were forced to
focus on motherhood and femininity
instead of politics, technology or
anything else outside of the home and
the family.
- This was a way of rendering women second class
citizens: the second sex.
- This was a way of rendering women second class
citizens: the second sex.
- The notion of a 'woman's nature'
struck Simone de Beauvoir as further
oppression. She called motherhood a
way of turning women into slaves. It
did not have to be that way, but it
usually ended up that way in society
precisely because women were told to
concern themselves with their own
divine nature. They were forced to
focus on motherhood and femininity
instead of politics, technology or
anything else outside of the home and
the family.
- TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY
- The Woman's Liberation Movement
helped Simone de Beauvoir become more
attuned to the day-to-day sexism women
experience. Yet, she did not think it was
benificial for women to refuse to do
anything the 'man's way', or refuse to
take on qualities deemed masculine.
- Some radical feminist
organisations rejected
leadership hierarchy as a
reflection of masculine
authority and said that no
single person was in
change. Some feminist
artists declared they could
never truly create unless
they were completely
separate from
male-dominated art.
- Beauvoir recognised that the Women's Liberation movement had done some good, but she said that
feminists should not utterly reject being part of a man's world.
- Some radical feminist
organisations rejected
leadership hierarchy as a
reflection of masculine
authority and said that no
single person was in
change. Some feminist
artists declared they could
never truly create unless
they were completely
separate from
male-dominated art.
- The Woman's Liberation Movement
helped Simone de Beauvoir become more
attuned to the day-to-day sexism women
experience. Yet, she did not think it was
benificial for women to refuse to do
anything the 'man's way', or refuse to
take on qualities deemed masculine.
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