The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
The writer
Simone De Beauvoir
9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986 1908 Born in Paris, France 1929 Met Jean Paul Sartre,with whom she entered a lifelong relationship.
Beauvoir published her first novel <She Came to Stay> in 1943. It is a fictionalized chronicle of her and Sartre's sexual relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz At the end of World War II, Beauvoir and Sartre edited <Les Temps Modernes>, a political journal Sartre founded along with Maurice MerleauPonty and others. Beauvoir remained an editor until her death. Published in 1954, The Mandarins is set just after the end of World War II and won her France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
3、Inspiring subsequent arguments against psychoanalysis.
Questions:
1、Nowadays, do women still need to rely on men? Is it possible for both men and women to share this world equally?
The Second Sex
The influence of the book
1、It deals with the treatment of women throughout history and is often regarded as a major work of feminist philosophy and the starting point of second-wave feminism. 2、Beauvoir‘s formulation that “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman", distinguishes the terms 'sex' and 'gender'.
Les Temps Modernes
The Mandarins
The Second Sex
• The end of first wave of feminism and the beginning of second wave of feminism • Main idea of the book – Based on existentialism – Women as the second sex – The second sex as derived from the first sex. Women have been defined as secondary to men who have been seen as the primary sex
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Book One: Facts and Myths Discusses from a
viewpoint of women Reasons about the inequality
Book Two : Lived Experience
What environment dose women face The ideal world & solutions.
She was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.
The major works of the writer
Shs that: “ Although women have acquired the right to vote, as long as they do not have the economic independence, it is only the empty talk concerning their civil liberty.” What is the women economic independence? 3、Why the objects of Beauvoir’s study are mainly the middle class women of the white race while the countrywomen who were, at that time, a large part of French women are rarely mentioned and the working class women are even not mentioned? Does such research take a part for the whole?