1908-1986
de Beauvoir speaks about self as an object. When one thinks about oneself he/she is no longer the subject of his/her conscious but has mad his/herself the object of his/her conscious.
de Beauvoir not only saw the split between the mind and body but also a split in genders.
de Beauvior poses the question: have women lost their way? Is femininity in danger?
The subject is the masculine. The feminine is the object and it is not strange or a shock to women to be classified as the object. There has been history of other groups of people where they were once subjects and then became objects due to oppression or whatever was the case. However, for women there has never been a time where they were the subject. The feminine has always been oppressed. There has never been a time in history or religion where women could look back to and say there was a time where they were subjects. Women have always been the object.
de Beauvoir calls for women to reproduce themselves. women need to create their subjectivity. the question is how do women do that without becoming or taking on the role masculine? Because when we think of dominance, we think of the masculine. So we need to create the image individually that shows the feminine idea as independent and autonomous. We do not need to transform the image of femininity into an image that we create and not an image that resembles the masculine.
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