PP249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, The Second Sex
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Contextualizing de beauvoir: the second sex had a profound impact on betty friedan, and her book the feminine. Mystique (1963: friedan explores the effects of naturalized ideas about gender, gender roles, and what it meant to be a woman in 1950s america, sparked the 2nd wave feminist movement. Friedan: the problem that has no name : describes what she calls the problem that has no name , a woman only problem that was dismissed, in one way or another, by almost all who talked about it. Initially, it was not even considered real by most men, and many women. What is certain is that for the moment they exist in a strikingly way. (24: masculine and feminine are not symmetrical terms, through in the abstract it might appear this way, in practice this is not the case. Woman defined: the other : woman is defined in relation to man, he is the subject, he is the absolute.
