On Beauvoir’s Female Subjectivity Thought In The Second Sex

Beauvoir’s feminine subjectivity thought was influenced by Hegel’s "master-slave relationship" and "self-awareness", Heidegger’s "real and non-real", Sartre’s "self-being and self-making" and Marx and Engels’ thought about human essence and labor division. Beauvoir’s feminine subjectivity thought is the product of specific historical conditions, and her own situation and the situation of women in that period is the most important factor of Beauvoir’s "The Second Sex".Beauvoir reveals and analyzes the reason of the phenomenon that "the woman belongs to others" through the investigation of women’s social life and other aspects in "The Second Sex", mainly from the women themselves physical characteristics, particularity patriarchal social system and other aspects of the status of women. Then Beauvoir proposed some ways to get rid of "belonging to others" and enhancing social status, mainly from the complete transformation of the economic status, getting rid of love attachment, build sibling relationships and establish subject consciousness of hand, foot and other aspects describes the women get rid of "otherness" status, upgrade ways own status.The rationality of Beauvoir’s feminine subjectivity thought shows as follows: emphasizing on the importance of economic emancipation and social labor, analyzing women’s emancipation by using the materialism’s theoretical framework and seek for the ideal of gender equality. And Beauvoir’s feminine subjectivity thought has some limitations as is the product of her own experiences and her life time. The limitation shows as follows: Beauvoir simply regards men as exploiting class, underestimate the function of women in the creation of history and there are no clearly stated policies and approaches for the women’s liberation.