The precarious social positioning and aspirations that hamstring women described by Beauvoir in 1949, still ring true today. “In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir argued that women were at a disadvantage in a society where they grew up under ‘a multiplicity of incompatible myths’ about women. Instead
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Dead Wild Roses: Women’s minds matter – Sally Davies
Popular conception of Mind is still burdened, to a certain extent, with the cloak of Cartesian Dualism. The notion that our brains are primarily computational/abstraction machines being transported around in a useful bags of flesh is strong heuristic model that, while providing clarity in many areas, often obfuscates our relationship
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Simone de Beauvoir – On Prostitution
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Second Sex and Simon de Beuvoir – One is not born, but rather becomes a Woman – Explained!
I am so beyond tired of English speakers misinterpreting this quote and making it mean the exact opposite of what Beauvoir meant by it. Here is the explanation that immediately follows it in The Second Sex: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is Woman? – A Primer on Simone de Beauvoir
Probably not what you expected, but still accurate and interesting. 🙂 Filed under: Philosophy Tagged: 8-bit Philosophy, Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir
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