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[30] For each of them, the ideal woman is the one who more exactly embodies the Other capable of revealing it to himself. Montherlant seeks pure animality in women; Lawrence demands that she summarizes the female gender in her femininity; Claudel calls her soul-sister; Breton trusts the woman-child; Stendhal is looking for an equal. [31]
That the female Other is a self-aware Woman who is autonomous and independent of the patriarchy's formal subordination of the female sex with the institutional limitations of social convention, tradition, and customary law; the social subordination of women is communicated (denoted and connoted) in the sexist usages of the word Woman. [34]
In the chapter "Woman: Myth and Reality" of The Second Sex, [81] Beauvoir argued that men had made women the "Other" in society by the application of a false aura of "mystery" around them. She argued that men used this as an excuse not to understand women or their problems and not to help them, and that this stereotyping was always done in ...
Mr O'Neill, representing For Women Scotland, said: “In the Equality Act, sex just means sex, as that word and the words woman and man are understood and used in ordinary, everyday language, used ...
Beauvoir examined women's subordinate role as the 'Other', patriarchally forced into immanence [11] in her book, The Second Sex, which some claim to be the culmination of her existential ethics. [12] The book includes the famous line, "One is not born but becomes a woman," introducing what has come to be called the sex-gender distinction.
Society tends to fan the flames of toxic female competitiveness, casting “the other woman” as a devious snake. She’s unilaterally at fault for seducing the man we love, who maintains his ...
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
In a touching Secret Santa exchange captured on TikTok, Mary Kate gifts Giuliana a personalized purse with a special message from her late mother