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This is a real shame: And it does so by being overtly French; in other words, by sounding authoritative — and rude. Heated debate is a passion, considered healthy in France. As the highly regarded year-old French historian and feminist Michelle Perrot , partly critical of the Deneuve letter, wrote: The debate is real and must be recognised.

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In France today, different feminist groups coexist: They present themselves as the new vanguard of French feminism, the new blood, except they can sound to some like Stalinist commissars, or Robespierre in culottes, passing edicts about what is acceptable conduct. We would be wrong, however, to think that the current debate shows a generational fight. Many millennials have signed the Deneuve letter. The divide is political, ideological even.

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This is probably the most interesting and sharpest argument made in the Deneuve letter. As Sarah Chiche, a year-old psychoanalyst and author who signed the Deneuve letter, explained: Kourtney reveals baby's sex! At the time, a source told E! That's why it's so awkward to answer that stuff. I don't know what to say anymore, because people go up and down in relationships. Sometimes you're there and sometimes you're not We've been having fun but there's nothing concrete.

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By using the site, you consent to these cookies. Some chapters first appeared in Les Temps modernes. Beauvoir asks "What is woman? She describes women's subordination to the species in terms of reproduction, compares the physiology of men and women, concluding that values cannot be based on physiology and that the facts of biology must be viewed in light of the ontological, economic, social, and physiological context.

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Beauvoir argues that while Engels, in his The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State , maintained that "the great historical defeat of the female sex" is the result of the invention of bronze and the emergence of private property , his claims are unsupported. According to Beauvoir, two factors explain the evolution of women's condition: She compares women's situation in ancient Greece with Rome.

In Greece, with exceptions like Sparta where there were no restraints on women's freedom, women were treated almost like slaves.

In Rome because men were still the masters, women enjoyed more rights but, still discriminated against on the basis of their sex, had only empty freedom. Discussing Christianity , Beauvoir argues that, with the exception of the German tradition, it and its clergy have served to subordinate women.

Some men helped women's status through their works. She examines the spread of birth control methods and the history of abortion. Beauvoir provides a presentation about the "everlasting disappointment" of women, [25] for the most part from a male heterosexual's point of view. She covers female menstruation , virginity , and female sexuality including copulation , marriage , motherhood , and prostitution.

To illustrate man's experience of the "horror of feminine fertility", Beauvoir quotes the British Medical Journal of in which a member of the British Medical Association writes, "It is an indisputable fact that meat goes bad when touched by menstruating women. Examining the work of Henry de Montherlant , D.

Beauvoir writes that "mystery" is prominent among men's myths about women. Presenting a child's life beginning with birth, [37] Beauvoir contrasts a girl's upbringing with a boy's, who at age 3 or 4 is told he is a "little man".

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Beauvoir writes that "to ask two spouses bound by practical, social and moral ties to satisfy each other sexually for their whole lives is pure absurdity". In Beauvoir's view, abortions performed legally by doctors would have little risk to the mother. In this new creation of a new life the woman loses her self, seeing herself as "no longer anything Beauvoir describes a woman's clothes, her girl friends and her relationships with men.

In contrast to prostitutes, hetaeras can gain recognition as an individual and if successful can aim higher and be publicly distinguished.

When she agrees to grow old she becomes elderly with half of her adult life left to live. According to Beauvoir, while a woman knows how to be as active, effective and silent as a man, [71] her situation keeps her being useful , preparing food, clothes, and lodging.

She protests but doesn't escape her lot. Beauvoir describes narcissistic women, who might find themselves in a mirror and in the theater , [75] and women in and outside marriage: Beauvoir then says that women don't "challenge the human condition" and that in comparison to the few "greats", woman comes out as "mediocre" and will continue at that level for quite some time.

Beauvoir thinks that perhaps, of all women, only Saint Teresa lived her life for herself. In her conclusion, Beauvoir looks forward to a future when women and men are equals, something the " Soviet revolution promised " but did not ever deliver. The first French publication of The Second Sex sold around 22, copies in a week.

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