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1、The Second Sex(Le Deuxime Sexe)Simone de beauvoir,Outline,Brief introduction 2.Influence,Previous feminine researches,It was published in 1949 Main ideas of the book 1.Based on existencialism2.Women as the second sex 3.The second sex as derived from the first sex.Women have been defined as secondary
2、 to men who have been seen as the primary sex,Part One Destiny,Part Two History,Part Three Myths,Volume 1,Destiny,Biological Data,The Psychoanalytical Point of View,The Point of View of Historical Materialism,It is the long historical insignificance that determines womens inferiority,History,Myth,Ev
3、erlasting Disappointment Of Women,Analysis Of Five Men writers,Mens MythAbout Woman,Volume 2(4 parts),1.formative years,ChildhoodThe girlSexual initiationThe lesbian,Female castration complex,reject,2.Situation,The married women The motherSocial life Prostitution and hetaerasFrom maturity to old age
4、Womans situation and character,Women have to work for their liberation,3.Justifications,Narcissist The women in loveThe mystic,Unreal relation with real being Or A real relation with an unreal,To affirm themselves,4.Toward liberation,The independent woman Some women who are independent:Emily Bronte,
5、Woolf.,Everyone has the Self,but in order to confirm its existence,they need a contrast.,Why did women become the second sex and land in the position of the other?,Beauvoirs explanation:The division of consciousness in“self”and“other”Self defines itself by demarcating itself against an otherSelf has
6、 more power and can“other”the other one,put him/her in the position of the otherIndividuals and society do this to women,Beauvoirs conclusion,She calls for mutual recognition and respectMen and women should work togetherMen and women should respect each other as equal,although there are differences,Influence the“bible”women Starting point of second-wave feminismInspiring subsequent arguments against psychoanalysis“one is not born,but rather becomes,a woman”,Translation versions By H.M.Parshley By Constance Borde and Malovany-Chevalier,Thank you!,