Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauvoir was a French writer and philosopher whose The Second Sex (1949) became a foundational text of modern feminism.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 9 Jan 1908, Montparnasse, Paris (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 14 Apr 1986, Paris, aged 78, of pneumonia; buried beside Sartre in Montparnasse Cemetery (opens wiqqi.app)
- Teaching: Taught in lycées from 1929 to 1943, until she could live from her writing (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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No biological, psychological or economic fate makes women feminine; civilization does (opens korrents.com)
“No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is…”
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Man is cast as the Subject and the Absolute; woman as the Other (opens korrents.com)
“He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other.”
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Humanity is defined as male, and woman only relative to man (opens korrents.com)
“Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.”
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No biological, psychological or economic fate makes women feminine; civilization does (opens korrents.com)