FOLK 029 Lecture 2: GSR- Simone de Beauvoir
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Greatest contribution to philosophy was the second sex. The vatican put it on their index of prohibited books. Major thesis is that women are in an oppressive relationship of oppression to man by being relegated to the status of the man"s other . The self needs otherness to define itself. Her work explores the conditions for the emergence of this otherness. Push back in 60s w/ some women protesting hegemony of work in feminist debates, requesting reevaluation of femininity with emphasis on maternity. 90s: scholarly text as feminist studies institutionalized in academia. Humans are less dramatically sexually dimorphous than much of the natural world (the sexes are relatively similar in humans) Gender and sex are distinguished from each other in gender studies to allow for the tole of socialization. Looked at 124 measures of possible differences between men and women. Separated variables into where there was no difference, little differences, some,large. 30% of traits examined found no differences.
