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Comment On Beauvoir's Feminism Theory

Posted on:2007-10-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360185458952Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Simone de Beauvoir expounds the women' s real situation, position and rights in the historical changing from primitive society to modern society and explores the sexual differences of what women' s individual developmental history has showed from philosophy, literature, history, biology, psychology, ancient mythology and cultural customs and so on , so she draws the conclusion : We would say women are becoming women gradually in the patriarchal society rather than women are not born women in the book the second sex. The conclusion means women are made by the society and women are the women who are made by the patriarchal society and have femininity. In the book the second sex, Simone de Beauvoir bases on existentialism and expounds her feminism thinking. She thinks if women are human beings just as men in the world, so women should be free just as men too. Because human being is free. Women shouldn' t belong to men because of the physical differences between women and men, and should be equal and free with men.Simone de Beauvoir also expresses her hate for the women' s femininity, which is formed in the patriarchal society in the book the second sex. Because the women' s femininity, which is formed in the patriarchal society, makes women truly become men' s subordinator, the other, and the second sex . As a woman, but I think we should regard the femininity, which is formed in the patriarchal society properly. Because to some degree, it is good for our current real society. So we should keep some of it and develop, purify and perfect it . As to the so- called bad aspects of women' s, we should eliminate them. Therefore, each woman tries their best to be the perfect woman who is self-dependent and acting on her own, self-respect and self-love, tender, kind, motherhood, beauty-love, sympathetic and so on . The appearance of this kind perfect women not only respects the freedom of women as human beings, but also...
Keywords/Search Tags:feminism, existentialism, the second sex, the other, femininity, harmonious society
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