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Single Idea 20746

[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism ]

Full Idea

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.

Gist of Idea

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman

Source

Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex [1952], p.301 (or 267)), quoted by Kevin Aho - Existentialism: an introduction 2 'Phenomenology'

Book Ref

Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.31


A Reaction

This has become the principle idea in modern discussions of gender. It divides gender from sex, rather as Locke divided person from human being. It is an abstraction. It is part of the Hegelian-Marxist idea that persons are moulded by culture.