WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Luce Irigaray, Simone De Beauvoir, Judith Butler
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De beauvoir states that while it is natural for humans to understand themselves in opposition to others, this process is flawed when applied to the genders. Man occupies the role of the self, or subject; woman is the object, the other. He extends out into the world to impose his will on it, whereas woman is doomed to immanence, or inwardness. He creates, acts, invents; she waits for him to save her. This distinction is the basis of all de beauvoir"s later arguments. structed, with very few physiologically rooted feminine qualities or values. De beauvoir denies the existence of a feminine temperament or nature to her, all notions of femininity are artificial concepts. In one of her most telling aphorisms she declares, one is not born a woman; rather, one becomes one. Luce irigaray, excerpts from the sex which is not one (canvas)
