Simone de Beauvoir

<aside> đź’ˇ Quotes

  • “One is not born but rather becomes a woman.”(the second sex,281)

  • “The category of the Other is as primordial as consciousness itself.” (the second sex) </aside>

<aside> ✏ Notes:

  • 1908-1986

  • french writer, existentialist philosopher and feminist

  • 1927; sorbonne met sartre

  • life-long relationship with sarte began in 1929 - very unconventional (nover married nor monogamous, never had children)

  • youngest to pass philosphy exam and then philosphy teacher in France

    • age 21 - pass philosphy exam

  • sarte and beauvoir had many similarities and differences, sometimes hard to tell where one originated or if perhaps developed together

  • the second sex

    • published in 1949

    • criticized by men and women but a foundational tezt for feminism

    • existentialist notion of “existence precedes essence” very apparent here:

      • “One is not born but rather becomes a woman.”

    • woman is the other to man’s self

    • both men and women are complicit in this

    • the “new woman” will inhabit “an androgynous world and not a masculine world”

    • the pursuit of equality there is no debate between life and philosophy

  • what does it mean to be a woman?

  • judith butler: what is gender video

    • everyone has a theory of gender </aside>