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Perspective voyage · 1949

Beauvoir — Embodied freedom made into “the Other”

If “woman” is shaped by social norms rather than natural fact alone, what does the lived standpoint add to knowledge?

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The Second Sex analyzes the history, myths, and lived experience through which man is cast as universal subject and woman as relative Other.

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  • Simone de Beauvoir

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §4 The Second Sex; woman as Other and lived experience

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