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- Publisher
- Addleton Academic Publishers
- Copyright
- © 2009 Addleton Academic Publishers
- ISSN
- 1841-5261
- eISSN
- 2471-089X
- Publisher site
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Abstract
In the present paper, I focus on Beauvoir’s investigation of women’s oppression, her observations on young women’s sexuality, her analysis of female subjectivity, and her debate of the normative masculine imaginary. The results of the current study converge with prior research on Beauvoir’s investigation of the constructed character of “woman,” her analysis of female embodiment, the sexual difference in Beauvoir’s view, and her assessment of the social constructions of masculinity and femininity. My analysis complements the growing literature on Beauvoir’s notion of situation and sex, her interpretation of the nature of woman’s submissiveness, her concept of sexual difference, and her account of patriarchal marriage. Keywords: Beauvoir; sexual difference; femininity; masculinity; marriage
Journal
Review of Contemporary Philosophy – Addleton Academic Publishers
Published: Jan 1, 2016