Feminism Flashcards
- These philosophers reject the largely male-oriented manner of imposing rigid schemes on things.
-both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice
-Motivated by the quest for social justice, feminist inquiry provides a wide range of perspectives on social, cultural, economic, and
political phenomena.
Feminist Philosophy
-Is one of the best-known French writers and thinkers of
the 20th century, and among the best-known female writers of all time.
-Was prominent in the circle of left-wing Parisian intellectuals associated with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. She was an acclaimed and popular novelist
-Her study of the oppression of women throughout history, The Second Sex (1949), is a founding text of modern feminism.
Simone de Beauvoir
Woman’s _____ is to be explained by her situation. Many of the faults for which women are reproached—mediocrity, laziness, frivolity, servility—express the fact that their horizon is closed.
character
Man as _____ , Woman as _____
Subject, Object
Woman is _____ not ______
created, born
A woman is more than her ___
biology
Man is a ___
Free agent
On the other hand, everything happens to a woman through the _____, and therefore these others are responsible for her woes. She is bound to suffer every ______; a slave cannot have the sense of human dignity; she is completely dependent on _______
agency of others, humiliation, masculine support
Because she is ____, she experiences more passionately the reality in which she is submerged than does the man absorbed in an ______. She has the leisure and the inclination to abandon herself to
her emotions. She tries to understand others as individuals and to identify them with herself; she makes his projects and cares hers in a way he
cannot imitate.
passive, ambition
The fact that _____ is denied her keeps her as a rule from attaining the loftiest human attitude: heroism, revolt, disinterestedness, imagination, creation
transcendence
Because of this, women are always trying to conserve, to adapt, to arrange, rather than to______ : they prefer _____
to destroy and build anew, compromise and
adjustment to revolution
Because she is incapable of technical skill, sound logic, and definite knowledge, she feels she is surrounded by dangerous mysteries. She projects her magical conception of reality into that male world; the course of events seems to her to be inevitable, and yet anything can happen; she is ready to believe anything, no matter what. Woman _______
flounders in confusion and darkness
Her _______ to the carnal world and to a world of “____” defines her metaphysics
double allegiance, poetry
-worn away in service to the species, bleeding each month,
her body it is not a pure instrument for getting a grip on the world but an opaque physical presence; it creates lacerating pains; it contains menaces: woman feels endangered by her “insides.”
-We have a body that is not given importance
Hysteric Body
-she is also dazzled in beholding it in the mirror; it is
promised happiness, work of art, living statue; she shapes it, adorns it, puts it on show.
-Woman can’t present their problems, so we have to live a _____ life
Glorious Double, double
