WGSS 1124 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: South End Press, Bell Hooks, Simone De Beauvoir

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1124
• Professor: Timothy Dzurilla

Document Summary

Simone de beauvoir uses this article to convey to sometimes overlooked inequalities between men and women. She states that in any given society, a female being is not a woman unless she presents herself as one, through femininity. She uses the word femininity multiple times and explores the meaning and why the concept even exists. She also writes that masculinity and femininity aren"t even two separate yet equal ideas; because of the common use of man to designate human beings in general; whereas woman represents only the negative (de. From this article, i have realized a more deeper way of looking into men and women as two separate beings and why we are not all just considered the same. In sex and gender in simone de beauvoir"s second sex (pp. Judith butler is conveying that gender is a choice for everyone. She says that to be a gender is to be engaged in the cultural interpretation of bodies.