1949
If “woman” is shaped by social norms rather than natural fact alone, what does the lived standpoint add to knowledge?
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
Open sourceBeauvoir's claim that one becomes rather than is born a woman does not deny the body; it asks how embodiment is lived through situation and norms.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4.1–§4.3, biology, situation, and becoming woman
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